Biography
Gene Corish was a Denver relief-strike defendant arrested and jailed after police attacked a Federal Emergency Relief Administration picket line on October 30, 1934. Relief workers in nearby Arapahoe County had struck against a 51 percent wage cut and marched to Denver work projects. Corish and the other defendants were released on bail before their December trial. He was among six defendants convicted in December 1934; nine others were acquitted. The International Labor Defense represented the strikers and organized an appeal.
Page 3's caption individually identifies this defendant in the Denver relief-strike group photograph. The December 6 report dates the police attack and arrests to October 30, says all defendants were actually out on bail and announces December 11 jury trials, defended by Thomas J. Croaff and Grover C. Johnson. Its potential six-month to two-year penalty range is not an imposed sentence. Henry Brown is identified as Englewood Colorado Workers Union president, shot by police and denied dressing of his wound for 72 hours in jail. Dietrich is described here as a Congressional candidate, differing from the earlier legislature designation. No final December outcome is inferred from this pretrial report. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n292-Nat-dec-07-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 3's December 18 Denver report individually names this defendant among six convicted in the October 30 FERA picket-line prosecution. Their sentences ranged from two to six months, with $200 fines; it does not say which person received which term. It reports nine unnamed acquittals and an ILD appeal being planned. Earlier bail liberty remains preserved; imposed terms are not completed service and the acquittals are not assigned to an assumed remainder of the photograph. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n302-Nat-dec-19-DW-LOC.pdf
Labor Defender, March 1935, PDF page 22: His signed Denver County Jail letter explicitly dates the relief-project police confrontation and arrest to October 30, 1934, reporting sixteen arrests and six convictions with four-to-six-month terms. He describes being seized and prodded toward the patrol wagon, and alleges police caused the riot. The group sentence range is not allocated as his individual term or measured time served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n03-mar-1935-orig-LD.pdf#page=22
