Biography
George Pewkitis was a National Miners Union member arrested at South Wilkes-Barre Colliery for distributing leaflets during the anthracite strike. The March 26, 1931 Daily Worker reports that both named miners were fined $25 and held for investigation. Their leaflet distribution and union organizing supply the labor-repression context; no individual arrest day or physical release date is provided. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n074-NY-mar-26-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
