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Jack Cory

Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

The Daily Worker, February 27, 1933, page 1 names Jack Burns, Jack Cory, A. Thomas, Klein and Kovacs as five people arrested the previous Tuesday when the Foltis-Fischer cafeteria at 799 Broadway struck. The report says Burns and Cory were eating lunch and were arrested with the pickets on the same disorderly-conduct charge. Trial in Essex Market Court was announced for the publication day; no outcome is supplied. Initial-only and surname-only identities remain under review. The masthead is February 27, despite the archive filename saying February 26. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n049-NY-feb-26-1933-DW-LOC.pdf

The March 4, 1933 report names these four pickets as arrested, fingerprinted and held for investigation pending a Saturday court appearance. The planned sentencing is not an accomplished verdict or release. Exact custody endpoints and complete duration are unknown. Daily Worker, March 4, 1933, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n054-NY-mar-04-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 595. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Disorderly conduct during the Foltis-Fischer cafeteria strike
Arrested: Feb 21, 1933
Sentence: Arrested February 21, inferred from last Tuesday in the Monday February 27 issue. Trial announced for February 27; actual verdict, sentence, discharge and duration unknown.