Biography
David Weiss was a 17-year-old Young Communist League member arrested with his sister Miriam while collecting Workers International Relief contributions on a B.M.T. subway train in December 1929. The December 28 Daily Worker reports that Flatbush magistrate Sylvester Sabbatino threatened David with a beating and the family with deportation. A January 1 interview describes police taking both young people to the station and the judge returning them to jail after a Tuesday appearance; they said they were held incommunicado even from their parents and appeared again Friday. Both were United States citizens. No exact arrest day, completed sentence or physical discharge is established. Sources: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n253-NY-dec-28-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1 ; https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n254-NY-dec-30-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1 ; https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n256-NY-jan-01-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
