Biography
Abraham Kublin was a sales worker and Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Local 1268 strike picket at the Kitty Kelly shoe-store chain in New York. The article individually names him among arrested pickets and reports the union’s allegation that police arranged traffic congestion to charge picketers with blocking traffic. Magistrate Peter A. Abeles imposed $10 or ten days in jail on the Tuesday preceding publication, then suspended the sentence after union attorney Arthur Markewich protested. The imposed alternative is not time actually served; the article supplies no exact arrest or physical release date. Daily Worker, August 8, 1936, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n190-NY-aug-08-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=3
The June 2 report prints A. Kublien among Kitty Kelly pickets arrested at the Thirty-fourth Street store Monday, June 1. Initial, closely matching surname, union and same strike support a cautious connection to Abraham Kublin; the printed variant is preserved. This arrest precedes his separately recorded August prosecution. No individual charge, verdict or release is given.
