Biography
James Snyder was arrested in June 1934 during resistance to an eviction in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. The Daily Worker of November 30, 1934, page 3, names James Snyder, John Hutsko and Meredith Mauk as defendants charged with inciting to riot and obstructing legal process, free under $1,000 bail each. It reports that Assistant District Attorney Chauncey Pruger announced an indefinite postponement of their trial on November 29 after protests, a six-hundred-signature petition and the borough council’s unanimous support. Despite the headline’s wording, the article establishes a third postponement, not dismissal or acquittal. No exact arrest day, bail-release day or custody duration is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n286-NAT-nov-30-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 346. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
