Biography
Page 4 identifies Dave Halpern as a Lewiston shoe worker arrested outside the Androscoggin textile mill during the strike and beaten in jail before his hearing the next morning. The worker correspondent calls the assault charge a frame-up and reports that questioning focused on revolutionary activity and that the judge threatened to suppress Communism. Halpern received 30 days in the county jail at Auburn; the report invites mail to him there. It gives $500 as the cost of an appeal without establishing that an appeal was taken or that bail was posted. The imposed term is not a verified completed period served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n227-sep-21-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 2 identifies Halpern as a Communist arrested in the recent Maine strike and names his defense among the tasks of the new Portland Socialist-Communist united-front committee, alongside Socialist Lawrence Brown and held-for-deportation unionist Gust Saderquist. This adds defense-campaign evidence to the existing strike case, without another arrest or inferred completion of the earlier thirty-day term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n292-Nat-dec-07-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 838. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Daily Worker, December 7, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.