Biography
James Veeny was a Black Newark worker denied relief for his family. After a failed attempt to send the family South, police jailed him for vagrancy. Unemployed Councils and International Labor Defense intervention won his release, and he sued relief officials Malady and Cornelius and Judge Nicholas Alabano for false arrest. He was then arrested again with a committee that refused to leave the Relief Department until aid was assured. Attorney Solomon Golat obtained a jury trial for the committee. This is two distinct actual arrests; precise dates and the second disposition are unprinted. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n175-NY-jul-22-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
