Biography
Dave Turner was a New York dressmaker and labor organizer who served as vice-chairman of the garment workers' general strike committee in February 1931. He was arrested on a picket line during the 1932 garment strike and prosecuted with Salvatore Adachi and Leonard Miller. The three were held in Bronx County Jail while awaiting sentence in April 1932. Turner received an indeterminate term of up to three years on Hart's Island.
The April 11, 1932 Daily Worker identifies Turner as a leader of the United Front Committee and a Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union member, and reports him and two other former Needleman and Bremmer strikers found guilty of felonious assault. It does not give an imposed sentence or final disposition. The separate April 20 report establishes actual Bronx County jail confinement; neither prospective sentencing nor maximum punishment is counted as time served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n086-NY-apr-11-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The April 20, 1932 Daily Worker explicitly places Turner, the co-defendant printed first as Salvatore Adachi and later Adolchi, and Leonard Miller in Bronx County jail awaiting sentence. It describes the Industrial Union defense campaign and an Irving Plaza protest on April 18. Sentencing scheduled that day is not a completed outcome. The inconsistent Adachi/Adolchi spellings are preserved as variants of the existing Adalchi cohort record, without a duplicate profile or invented continuous custody from the earlier strike arrests. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n094-NY-apr-20-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The June 14, 1932 Daily Worker advertises a June 15 Irving Plaza protest against sentencing of the garment-strike defendants printed Weissberg, Miller, Turner and Adlachi. The shared strike-defense cohort supplies the contextual match to the existing records; no new first names or people are invented. The notice gives no individual term, final disposition, prison-entry day or completed service and is not treated as proof that the advertised meeting occurred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n141-jun-14-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The May 5, 1932 report describes actual imprisonment in the Needleman and Bremmer strike prosecution and calls a meeting to demand their release. It attributes the case to intervention by ILGWU officials. No exact physical custody endpoints or completed total is established. Daily Worker, May 5, 1932, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n107-NY-may-05-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Page 2 reports Turner seized at noon the previous day, May 25, in a Thirty-fifth Street restaurant by ILGWU men and detectives, accused of felonious assault and sent to jail. It identifies him as a Needleman and Bremmer striker and former union council member. This 1931 episode is distinct from the separately recorded 1932 prosecution with Adachi and Miller.
