Biography
William Taber was an official of Chicago’s Amalgamated Street Carmen’s Union. Page 3’s February 3 dispatch reports that he and the other named union official were acquitted the previous day, February 2, 1935, of killing strikebreaker James J. Kelly during the September 1934 bus strike. The report says twenty-seven other workers and officials had been indicted and that police seized union books, while General Motors interests controlling the Chicago Motor Coach Company sought to use the case against the union. This is the newspaper’s account of the labor prosecution; it supplies no individual arrest or physical discharge date. 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 348. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
