Biography
Chester Grentzback was a local delegate to the National Hunger March involved in the North Tonawanda, New York struggle for unemployed relief. The Daily Worker of December 30, 1931, pages 1 and 3, names Chester Grentzback among workers arrested after the December 28 protest at the Common Council chamber. The report says police and hired men severely beat him and that he was taken to a hospital. The workers demanded cash relief and aid for children and opposed a new ordinance restricting leaflets, meetings and parades. The report says the defendants were initially held on open/disorderly-conduct accusations and that the charges were changed to felony and inciting to riot, with bail then denied. No conviction, sentence, eventual release or exact period in custody is established.
