Biography
Florence Corn 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: 30 days; no individual fine specified. 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
The June 27, 1926 Daily Worker prints a joint letter signed by Freda Reicher and Florence Corn from Cook County Jail, where they were serving sentences for defying Judge Denis E. Sullivan's anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 garment strike. Their letter advocates open labor opposition to injunctions. This is an actual custody observation, not a new admission or discharge date. The separate Reicher feature gives a thirty-day imposed term and reports that she left a Colorado tuberculosis sanitarium to serve it; that medical context is attributed to the newspaper rather than an independent diagnosis.
The Daily Worker of March 20, 1924, pages 1–2, reports Florence Corn’s Chicago garment-strike injunction prosecution: arrest the previous Thursday, March 13, and a thirty-day county-jail sentence imposed by Denis Sullivan on March 19, with attorney Peter Sissman seeking a writ and appeal. Her documented 1926 jail service concerned the 1924 garment strike and may be delayed execution of this same sentence. No separate case is created, no continuous custody from 1924 to 1926 is inferred, and the existing 1926 confinement fields are preserved pending a legal-episode bridge. The March 1924 report alone does not prove that thirty days were then completed.
Reviewed original source 2086, relevant PDF pages stated in note.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
