Biography
August Pinto was reported held for deportation because of labor activity in the July 4 account of Boston ILD defense work. The report supplies no exact initial arrest, physical release or final deportation outcome. No identity is assumed with other similarly named people in unrelated cases. Daily Worker, July 4, 1930, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n160-NY-jul-04-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
The New Bedford National Textile Workers Union report identifies Pinto as a strike picket captain who subsequently organized unemployed workers. Textile demonstrations were to demand his release while he faced deportation. The threatened removal remained prospective; the issue provides no exact intake or discharge day. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n195-NY-aug-14-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
A signed letter from New Bedford printed in the June 1930 Labor Defender identifies the writer as August S. H. Pinto and describes his continuing imprisonment and receipt of fruit, cigarettes, letters and a Work or Wages leaflet. The editorial caption identifies him as a New Bedford textile-strike picket captain in jail for six months. That six-month figure describes the jail term, not proven completed service. The issue does not establish exact admission or discharge or whether this jail confinement was administratively continuous with the later reported immigration hold; no separate episode is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1930/v05n06-jun-1930-LD.pdf#page=20
A signed letter printed as August S. H. Pinto from New Bedford thanks supporters for fruit, cigarettes and correspondence and says he will resume working-class activity after release. The editor identifies him as a textile-strike picket captain currently jailed for a nominal six months. This documents confinement by June 1930 publication, not an actual completed six-month total or proof that the later deportation detention was a distinct uninterrupted case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1930/v05n06-jun-1930-LD.pdf#page=20
The August 14, 1930 Daily Worker, page 3, continuing the page 1 textile-union report, identifies August Pinto as a picket captain during the New Bedford strike and an active unemployment organizer afterward. The report calls for his release and says he faces deportation. It supplies no exact arrest, detention-intake or physical-release date and does not report a completed deportation. August is his printed given name, not an inferred arrest month.
