Jim Burke (Fairfield relief meeting, 1933)

Era:1930s
State:Alabama
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Biography

Jim Burke is individually named among ten people arrested at an unemployed-workers meeting in a private home in Fairfield, Alabama, on Friday January 27, 1933. The Sunday January 29 Birmingham dispatch says all ten spent Friday night in jail and were bailed out Saturday January 28, under an ordinance requiring police permission even for meetings in homes. The identity is qualified by the documented event; no link to a different existing namesake or to another Burke is established. Page 3. Source: Daily Worker, January 30, 1933, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n025-Nat-jan-30-1933-DW-LOC.pdf

Case

Charges: Holding an unemployed-workers meeting in a private home without police permission, under the Fairfield ordinance.
Arrested: Jan 27, 1933
Incarcerated: Jan 27, 1933
Released: Jan 28, 1933
Sentence: The January 29 Birmingham dispatch says the defendants spent Friday night in jail and were bailed out by workers on Saturday. This is actual overnight detention, not a completed sentence; precise hours and any earlier or later custody are unknown.

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