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Ted Rote

Era:1930s
State:Michigan
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Biography

Page 3 reports Ted Rote, a Red Builder, arrested selling the Daily Worker on the picket line at the Winters and Crampton plant in Grandville. The August 24 Grand Rapids dispatch says he was already out on $100 bail and selling papers in Campau Square, with trial scheduled September 4. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n204-aug-25-1934-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 492. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Destruction of property, molesting strikebreakers and additional unspecified accusations during strike-line newspaper sales.
Sentence: Actually out on $100 bail by August 24; September 4 trial prospective. Exact arrest, physical release and time held unknown.