Biography
S. Russell Gibboney was a Republic Steel employee on strike in Youngstown. He testified that police arrested him June 21, 1937 while he was moving hunting and target guns from his home. A Senate-report footnote says he was released after three days in jail. The committee rejected publicity photographs falsely labeling smoke bombs as dynamite from his home: the objects were not dynamite and had not been found on his premises. No conviction or formal criminal count is established. U.S. Senate, Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor, Senate Report No. 6, 76th Congress, 1st session (1939), part 3, printed 129, PDF 616.
