Biography
Fred Lane was arrested during the Baltimore dressmakers' strike described in the Daily Worker of March 27, 1935, page 5. The report says police beat him and jailed him for asking a strikebreaker not to enter a factory, and that he was fined $25 and costs. It presents his prosecution as interference with speech and peaceful picketing during the garment workers' struggle for union recognition and a closed shop. The article does not specify his formal charge, exact arrest date, jail term, or eventual release.
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 259. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
