Biography
A bus boy and waiter prosecuted repeatedly for picketing in the 1929 New York cafeteria strike. Pages 1–2 print a court transcript: Judge Rosenbluth imposed $20 or five days April 15 and ten days April 17; in a later proceeding Magistrate Edward Weil imposed six months in the workhouse. Taylor said he had picketed about two minutes and received no payment. Weil called him an anarchist and wished to deport him; defense counsel stated he was an American citizen. The later trial is described as about a month after the April convictions, not precisely dated. Distinct from the LDS president and Oakland Communist Labor Party member John C. Taylor. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n080-NY-jun-10-1929-DW-LOC.pdf
The May 21 report identifies the six-month punishment at the third cafeteria-picket arrest as imposed the previous day, May 20, by Magistrate Edward Weil. The same third-case cohort appears in the later June 10 account already cited. This dates the existing third prosecution rather than creating a fourth case; six months is imposed, not independently completed service. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n063-NY-may-21-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n063-NY-may-21-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
A report of the union’s preceding Friday meeting, indicating July 26, names Taylor among five cafeteria strikers actually in prison. This supplies a contemporary custody observation during the existing prosecution, not proof of continuous detention from the May 20 sentence or an exact admission and release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n122-NY-jul-29-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 418. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
