Biography
Fred Furek was a cafeteria-strike prisoner at Welfare Island, identified in his letter as inmate 97645, cell 609. He records admission at 10:30 a.m. on April 27, 1929 and says he is starting his seventh day of a ten-day sentence. This proves actual confinement, not completion of ten days or continuous imprisonment through the letter’s May 21 publication. Neither a final discharge nor an exact letter date is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n063-NY-may-21-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6
