Biography
Harry Fox signed the joint letter headed Solidarity Behind the Bars in the October 1934 Labor Defender. He and the other signatory thanked the ILD for a dollar to each and welcomed Angelo Herndon’s bail release while calling for freedom for political prisoners. The published correspondence address is 600 East 55th Street, New York City. The prison-correspondence heading supports confinement, but no institution, statutory accusation, sentence, individual admission or discharge day or measured duration is established; the street address is not converted into an invented prison identification. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n09-oct-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=15
Labor Defender, July 1934: The anniversary prison letter identifies Fox as a needle-trades worker sentenced to eighteen months in a New Yorkjail. He describes reading LaborDefender and thanks the ILD. This supplies an imposed sentence and trade affiliation beyond the later correspondence, without asserting eighteen months actually completed or inventing a jail from a streetaddress. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n07-jul-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=27
Labor Defender, February 1935, PDF page 22: His signed Christmas letter from Welfare Island, New York describes political prisoners receiving ILD food packages and sharing candy and cigarettes with other inmates. It supplies a historical custody location without a new individual admission, discharge or sentence. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n02-feb-1935-orig-LD.pdf#page=22
