Biography
George Bingula was a union coal miner of Harmarville, Pennsylvania, arrested several times by the coal-and-iron police during a Pittsburgh-district coal strike. He was jailed after a picket-line clash with a deputy and, in a later incident, shot through the leg by a drunken deputy — one of the many rank-and-file miners caught up in the coal-field violence of the late 1920s.
1920s custody review: Don Brown, reporting from the ongoing Pennsylvania coal strike in December 1927, describes George Bingula being jailed after a picket-line dispute at Harmarville and promptly bailed out by fellow miners so that he could play music at a dance that evening. This establishes detention and bail release during the 1927 strike, but no month or day. Both endpoints are recorded only to the year; January 1 is a storage placeholder, not the event date. No exact duration or conviction is inferred. The original illustrated pages contain no identified photograph of Bingula.
Source: Don Brown, On the Pennsylvania Front, New Masses, December 1927, pages 7-8, original pages visually inspected. The separate report that a deputy shot him in the leg is not treated as another prison admission.
