Biography
Bela Novak, reported as 34 years old and living in Wilmar, was named among defendants in the Los Angeles-area agricultural-strike prosecutions in the June 4, 1936 Western Worker, page 2. Pleaded not guilty; jury trial scheduled for June 11, 1936. Exact arrest, physical custody endpoints and outcome unreported. The article reports mass arrests and police violence against the field strike, but does not individually measure this defendant’s confinement. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1936/v5n45-w308%5B208%5D-jun-04-1936.pdf#page=2
