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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Detroit, two Negro workers, Lonnie Williams and Johnny McAdoo, were arrested for disturbing the peace after helping prevent the eviction of widowed Negro woman Mrs. Anna Cash from her home at 915 Benton St. during a demonstration by Unemployment Councils and League of Struggle for Negro Rights on June 6. They face a hearing on Thursday, held on $500 bail, defended by International Labor Defense.
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DETROIT, June 11.—Two Negro workers, Lonnie Williams and Johnny McAdoo, will come up for hearing Thursday morning, charged with "disturbing the peace."
The two Negroes with other Negro and white workers had prevented the eviction of Mrs. Anna Cash, a widowed Negro woman from her home at 915 Benton St. in a demonstration organized by the Unemployment Councils and League of Struggle for Negro Rights, on Wednesday, June 6. Cops using brutal methods, tried to disperse the workers but failed to stop them from putting the furniture back into the house. The International Labor Defense is defending them.
Williams and McAdoo were arrested and are being held on $500 bail.
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Detroit, 915 Benton St.
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June 6
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Two Negro workers and others prevented the eviction of a widowed Negro woman from her home in a demonstration, leading to their arrest for disturbing the peace after police failed to disperse them and they returned the furniture.