Biography
David Jenkins was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette Street in New York and convicted of unlawful assembly in Special Sessions Court on October 16, according to the Daily Worker of October 17, 1934, page 1. The report describes a police attack on the demonstration, names the seven convicted workers, and says three others were acquitted. Sentencing was scheduled for October 30; this article establishes neither an imposed sentence nor continued custody from May through October. Complete actual duration, bail history and final release are unknown. The police-violence account is attributed to the newspaper. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n249-NAT-oct-17-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1.
Jenkins’s first-person statement describes police beating him after the May 26 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette Street, binding his hands, fingerprinting him and holding five people overnight in a cell with one cot. The May 31 issue explicitly reports him already released on bail. This establishes a break in custody before the later October conviction, without an exact bail-release day or a complete service total. Daily Worker, May 31, 1934, page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n130-may-31-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
