Biography
Alfred H. Hirsch was secretary of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners — the intellectuals' defense body associated with Theodore Dreiser — jailed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1934 while observing the furniture-strike picket line, one of many arrests under Mayor Frank Hague's anti-labor crackdown.
PDF page 3 reports Hirsch, secretary of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and furniture-union member William Schwartz each sentenced to thirty days. Hirsch had observed Schwartz picketing Miller, approached when he was arrested and was arrested after asking why. The bail-release statement in this paragraph applies to Bingham and Rose Dickter, not automatically to Hirsch or Schwartz. No exact Hirsch discharge day or actual thirty days served is established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n155-jun-29-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
His signed JerseyCity letter says he spent time there since his release and describes picket defendants sentenced to thirty days, women offered25dollar fines, and JudgeWilliamMcGovern trying the cases. It identifies Hirsch as NationalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfPoliticalPrisoners secretary and attorneyA.J.Isserman as defense counsel. This is retrospective confirmation of liberty by publication, not an exact physical discharge or a personal thirty-day completed total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1934/v12n03-jul-17-1934-NM.pdf#page=31
On June 26, 1934, police arrested Alfred H. Hirsch after he questioned the arrest of William Schwartz at a Jersey City furniture-strike picket line. The Daily Worker reported that both men were being held on disorderly-conduct charges under $1,500 bail each. The scheduled Thursday court appearance does not establish a release date or sentence.
Original contemporary source 1 ; Original contemporary source 2.
Daily Worker, June 29, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
