Biography
Edith Briscoe was elected youth organizer at the October 18, 1931 Pittsburgh district steelworkers’ conference. Page 3 of the October 22 Daily Worker reports her arrest the next day in New Kensington for leading a march of Verona steelworkers demanding relief. It says she was sentenced to thirty days in jail without a trial. The thirty days is the newspaper’s reported imposed term, not verified actual service. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n254-NY-oct-22-1931-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 587. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
