Biography
William Pollard was identified among the leaders prosecuted during the RCA strike at Camden, New Jersey. A July 31 dispatch in the Daily Worker of August 1, 1936, page 2, reports that Federal Judge William Clark reduced his bail from $10,000 to $5,000. The article describes twenty-four pickets held under unusually high aggregate bail and an International Labor Defense campaign. It does not specify his individual statutory charge or establish a conviction, sentence, release after the reduction, or exact time held.
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 261. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
