Biography
Anna Porgribsky was a member of the unemployment-relief delegation beaten and arrested at New York City Hall on October 16, 1930. The Daily Worker of October 28, pages 1 and 4, identifies the defendants in the delegation’s case, reports inciting-to-riot and disorderly-conduct charges, and announces their hearing that morning at Tombs Court. The International Labor Defense sought subpoenas for Mayor Jimmy Walker and other officials who witnessed the delegation’s treatment. The report supplies no individual verdict, sentence, exact jail admission or physical discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n259-NY-oct-28-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
A reported October 30 dismissal of disorderly-conduct charges
The October 31 issue individually identifies Anna Pogribsky with the first group of unemployment delegates whose disorderly-conduct charges Chief Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan dismissed at the previous day’s hearing, October 30. It distinguishes that completed dismissal from the separate unlawful-assembly proceeding against Nessin, Lealess and Stone. Dismissal is a legal outcome, not by itself proof of a physical jail discharge at a particular gate, and no admission or time-served figure is supplied. The spelling Pogribsky in this report is not installed as a new alias or used to merge another person.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1930, original pages 1, 3. Contemporary allegations and courtroom characterizations are attributed to the newspaper.
