Biography
Ben Bernard was taken to a Pittsburgh station house when police broke up an unemployment hearing near the Jones and Laughlin plant. The report says police demanded a permit and a plainclothes officer threatened him. The formal count, discharge and total confinement are not printed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n284-NY-nov-26-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4