Clarence Miller (activist)

Clarence Miller
Clarence Miller (among the 16 prisoners in this photo from International Labor Defense magazine)
Born1906
CitizenshipAmerican
Known forLoray Mill strike defendant
Political partyCommunist Party USA
Criminal chargeMurder of policeman during strike
SpouseEdith Saunders

Clarence Miller (born 1906) was a 20th-century American labor activist who, as a member of the Young Communist League USA, participated in the 1926 Passaic textile strike (January 25, 1926 – March 1, 1927) and the 1929 Loray Mill strike (AKA Gastonia Strike) (March 30, 1929 – June 7, 1929), in which he and six other labor leaders were found guilty of murder.

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