Biography
Saul Williams was a Black worker in Bessemer, Alabama. A Bessemer dispatch dated February 1 in the Daily Worker of February 2, 1935, page 5, reports that police pulled him from his bed on Sunday night and detained him at police headquarters on suspicion without filing charges. The article describes Williams as a militant worker and the arrest as part of a renewed campaign against mine workers and their organizations. It says police held him incommunicado and blocked attempts to contact him. The report does not establish an exact calendar arrest date, conviction, sentence, length of detention or eventual release.
Daily Worker, February 4, 1935: Page 2’s Birmingham February 3 dispatch reports continuing concern after Bessemer police took Saul Williams from bed the previous Sunday night, with no subsequent contact. It connects the police seizure to his union activities opposed by Tennessee Coal and Iron and Republic Corporation officials. The scan confirms Saul, despite badly interleaved extraction. This supplements the existing incommunicado detention; absence of contact is not proof of death or a separate abduction, and no release or new custody duration is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n030-Nat-sect-1-feb-04-1935-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 256. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
