National Bail Fund
Scope and Contents
Wood, Norman M. Thomas, and Albert De Silver were the original trustees of the Fund (Evans Clark replaced De Silver in 1925, after the latter's death). The Fund was established in 1920 and began operation in 1922, providing bail for members of Workers Party of America, General Defense Committee, etc. The Fund was associated with The Labor Bureau [and ACLU?]. In a letter (7/2/1927) to Frank P. Walsh, Wood wrote "On account of my sins and my sympathies, I am a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Bail Fund which was organized during the hot persecution period to provide bail for poor devils who had no other means of getting it and were -to-goodness people, although some of them seem to have left out the honest and evaporated ..."
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