Biography
Ralph Shaw, the Communist Party’s Southern Illinois section organizer, was held in Belleville on a vagrancy accusation while supporting the Knapp-Monarch strike, according to the June 4 dispatch. No exact arrest, admission or release day or completed duration is supplied. He is distinct from the modern Philadelphia defendant Raphael Shaw. Daily Worker, June 5, 1934, page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n134-jun-05-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
