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Jack Kline

Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Jack Kline was a Fur Dyers Union Unemployment Council organizer, individually named among eight workers arrested when police expelled their delegation from a Williamsburg relief station. The Daily Worker of December 8, 1934, page 2, reports that Magistrate Dwyer refused to continue the trial after International Labor Defense lawyer Harry Alexander protested police intimidation of the defense. A Bridge Plaza Court hearing was announced for the following Monday at 9 a.m. The report does not establish an individual statutory charge, conviction, sentence, exact arrest or release date. The name is transcribed from the original scan. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n293-Nat-dec-08-DW-LOC.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 263. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Arrest during an unemployed-workers delegation to a Williamsburg relief station; statutory charge unspecified.
Sentence: Trial postponed after Magistrate Dwyer declined to proceed; a later hearing was announced, with no proved disposition or actual custody duration.