Biography
Adam Chura was a progressive member of Progressive Miners Local 1 and a Communist candidate for county judge. Page 1’s August 3 Chicago dispatch reports that a red flag had flown from Benld City Hall and that Chura had been arrested and was being held in Carlinville jail. The International Labor Defense sought his release. The item does not give the statutory charge, exact arrest day, bail for Chura, disposition, release or actual duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n186-aug-04-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 488. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
