Biography
John Pekerl was one of seven paper-box strikers arrested while eating in a restaurant at Hester and Allan Streets on Monday night, March 5, 1928. The March 8 Daily Worker individually lists the workers and reports actual release on $500 bail the previous day, March 7, on felonious-assault allegations. This is two elapsed calendar days of initial detention, without treating the future Tombs Court hearing as further custody or implying conviction. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n057-NY-mar-08-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2 The final letter of the surname is small in the original; the printed roster form Pekerl is retained without an expanded identity.
