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Page 4 identifies Ben Fifer and Carl Lester as leaders of Milwaukee's South Side Unemployed Council imprisoned in the County House of Correction after a demonstration demanding food and relief. The six leaders' sentences totaled forty-one months; no individual term is specified for Fifer. The account reports censorship of labor publications and describes the prosecution as punishment for resisting police attacks on the relief demonstration. No exact arrest, release or complete service period is given. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n091-NY-apr-15-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 840. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
