Biography
Evelyn Dornfield was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926, page 1: The front-page report names this picket among those beginning terms at Cook County Jail under Judge Denis E. Sullivan for violating the injunction during the 1924 garment strike. Individual listed sentence: 10 days and a $350 fine. Her parents depended on her. About four hundred fellow union members accompanied the defendants and red carnations were handed out. The article’s relative “today” does not establish an exact physical admission day. This is the already recorded 1926 imprisonment; later release evidence and any conflicting duration reports remain in the existing case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n131-NY-jun-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf
The June 22 report describes her illness while in County Jail. A forecast of release is prospective, and nominal sentence references do not settle conflicting actual-duration reports or justify an invented physical discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n137-NY-jun-22-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The July 15, 1926 account explicitly describes their physical release from Cook County Jail after completing thirty-day injunction-contempt terms arising from the 1924 garment strike. Fellow unionists met them with flowers and marched through the garment district. The issue supplies no exact physical discharge day; none is calculated from the term. Daily Worker, July 15, 1926, original PDF page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n156-NY-jul-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
