Biography
Augusto Gonzales Pinto was a Portuguese-immigrant leader of the 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts textile strike, described by the ILD's Labor Defender as the most frequently arrested of the strikers — jailed over and over for his part in the mass picketing. (Recorded as Augusto C. Gonzales Pinto)
Printed Augusto Pinto, the Portuguese New Bedford strike leader is individually named in the Sharp Mill arrest report with Casmiero Lamieras and Maria Botelho. The dated dispatch’s previous-night wording indicates July 24, 1928 and calls this his eighth jailing. That ordinal does not establish seven additional dated episodes, and it is not used to replace the existing year-level record of repeated arrests with a falsely exclusive first date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n176-NY-jul-26-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Sylvan A. Pollack’s home interview reports a separate August 1928 jail episode and Pinto’s actual return home by publication on August 15. Pinto describes House of Correction custody, being taken to court, return to cell 30 and removal to a punishment cell, where men held him while beating him with blackjacks. These are his attributed allegations. The lead prints August 3 but the quoted account prints August 30, impossible for this issue; August month precision is retained. Caption and body also disagree between his eleventh and twelfth arrests. Neither ordinal creates extra dated cases, and the ten-minute beating is not complete custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n193-NY-aug-15-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n193-NY-aug-15-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The July 4 photo caption identified Augusto C. G. Pinto and his unnamed wife as striking textile workers arrested by New Bedford police. It showed them with police sergeant William H. McCarty and said they had defied police violence while picketing mills. The caption does not establish an exact arrest day. Daily Worker, July 4, 1928, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n157-NY-jul-04-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
