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Edward Wright wrote the first-person account "We Go to Prison for Striking" in the Revolutionary Age, August 29, 1931, page 3. He recounts being among fifteen leading silk-strike pickets arrested after police attacked a procession toward the Doherty mill in Clifton, New Jersey. The lawyer reported disorderly-conduct charges for the group and a separate assault-and-battery charge for Louis Budenz. Wright describes police-station detention, release on bail until the following morning, renewed detention after referral to the county court, transfer to the county jail in Paterson, and a second departure after supper when bail was supplied. These are two custody episodes separated by bail, without dated endpoints or a verified total. He describes unsanitary jail bathing and inadequate food. The account is attributed to Wright and the newspaper. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/revolutionary-age/v2n39-aug-29-1931.pdf#page=3.
