Biography
Reginald Thomas was a former International Labor Defense organizer sent to Sing Sing prison on a two-to-four-year sentence for a stabbing that New Masses (1941) reported he did not commit — eyewitnesses described a slight 17-year-old, while Thomas was 34 and heavyset. New Masses charged that he was prosecuted in retaliation for his earlier labor-defense organizing.
The September 9, 1936 Daily Worker describes Harlem organizer Reggie Thomas facing a police-stabbing prosecution following a July street-meeting attack, and announces a trial that day. The report does not by itself establish a new intake or prove whether this was the same prosecution as his later documented Sing Sing confinement. No duplicate case or continuous 1936–1941 custody is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n217-NY-sep-09-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=3
