Biography
Joe Mankin was a Pittsburgh unemployment organizer and Daily Worker representative. The April 14, 1931 issue reports that he gave the main report at the April 8 unemployment-relief conference and had served thirty days in jail as a result of the February 25 demonstration. He and four unnamed others were then facing an inciting-to-riot trial. Its circulation column also identifies J. Mankin as the local paper representative describing the effect of imprisonment and hunger-march work on the district edition. No first-name expansion beyond Joe, exact admission, physical discharge or later verdict is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n090-NY-apr-14-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Joe Mankin was one of five speakers arrested June 7, 1930 at 149th Street and Third Avenue in New York, charged with disorderly conduct and given suspended sentences. This precedes his separate 1931 Pittsburgh case. Exact confinement endpoints and completed duration unprinted. Daily Worker, June 11, 1930, page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n140-NY-jun-11-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
The April 17, 1931 circulation column identifies J. Mankin as the Pittsburgh Daily Worker representative and says he was out of jail and had resumed organizing newspaper sellers. The April 14 account already retained on this profile names Joe Mankin in the same role and connects his thirty-day confinement to the February 25 Pittsburgh demonstration. This contemporary role-and-place correspondence identifies the abbreviated notice with the existing profile. It confirms reported freedom by April 17 without assigning that publication day as his physical discharge date or creating another case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n093-NY-apr-17-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
