Biography
George Payne was named among workers arrested after the April 6, 1934 Minneapolis City Hall demonstration for relief and continuation of CWA work. S. K. Davis’s account says Payne was accused of returning a tear-gas bomb, and the named defendants were among those sentenced May 4. The article does not print his individual term or exact physical release. His identity is qualified by the specific protest rather than merged with unrelated Payne records. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n06-jun-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=6
The June 1934 account dates sentencing in the represented Minneapolis demonstration prosecution to May 4 and identifies the trial judge as Clyde White. It does not establish a precise physical discharge or uninterrupted arrest-to-sentence custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n06-jun-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=6
The May 8, 1934 Daily Worker reports a 70-day workhouse sentence imposed in the Minneapolis CWA demonstration prosecution. The report dates the demonstration April 6, the sentencing Friday (May 4), and the ILD stay until May 14 while a new trial was sought. It names Judge Clyde R. White. A stayed nominal sentence is not itself proof of the amount served. The source spells Arvo Halberg for Gus Hall, Leo Tuuri, Arthur Hazelton, George Payne and Sam K. Daviss; these name forms are preserved within the established identities. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n110-may-08-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The Minneapolis trial report individually gives George Payne seventy days, with a ten-day stay until May 14. The stay prevents treating the nominal seventy days as already served.