Biography
Jerry Lynch was among seven workers arrested at the May 26, 1934 unemployment demonstration at 50 Lafayette Street in New York and convicted of unlawful assembly in Special Sessions Court on October 16, according to the Daily Worker of October 17, 1934, page 1. The report describes a police attack on the demonstration, names the seven convicted workers, and says three others were acquitted. Sentencing was scheduled for October 30; this article establishes neither an imposed sentence nor continued custody from May through October. Complete actual duration, bail history and final release are unknown. The police-violence account is attributed to the newspaper. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n249-NAT-oct-17-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1.
The ILD announcement in the July 14 issue individually identifies Lynch among the May 26 relief-demonstration prisoners still held awaiting bail, while the others had obtained bail. This adds a July custody observation to the already recorded case and does not establish continuous confinement through the October conviction or a physical discharge day. Daily Worker, July 14, 1934, page 5. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n168-jul-14-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
