Biography
Frank Phillips was arrested on February 17, 1930 while distributing unemployment leaflets outside the United States Employment Agency on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The Daily Worker of February 18, page 2, names Albert Mallin, Frank Phillips and Nathan Briscoe and reports that all three were released after police questioning that day. The source supplies no formal charge, conviction, sentence, exact jail-admission time or measured duration of confinement. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n297-NY-feb-18-1930-DW-LOC.pdf