Biography
Joseph Gray was one of two unemployed workers named in the July 25, 1933 Daily Worker as released the previous day after serving a twenty-five-day sentence on Welfare Island. The report connects the prosecution to exposing a Salvation Army relief collection at an East Sixth Street open-air meeting on June 29. It says police severely beat both workers before arrest and while taking them to the station, and that Judge Capshaw of the Second Street Court imposed the term on a disorderly-conduct charge. The paper describes completed service, not merely a future sentence. The physical admission day is not established and is not back-calculated from the reported twenty-five days.
Joseph Gray was one of two unemployed workers named in the July 25, 1933 Daily Worker as released the previous day after serving a twenty-five-day sentence on Welfare Island. The report connects the prosecution to exposing a Salvation Army relief collection at an East Sixth Street open-air meeting on June 29. It says police severely beat both workers before arrest and while taking them to the station, and that Judge Capshaw of the Second Street Court imposed the term on a disorderly-conduct charge. The paper describes completed service, not merely a future sentence. The physical admission day is not established and is not back-calculated from the reported twenty-five days.
The June 29 arrest context and July 24 release are source-derived; no physical admission day, birth or death date, race, gender, party membership or present custody status is inferred. Twenty-five days is the paper’s explicit completed-term report, not a calculated arrest-to-release span or a claim about all lifetime custody.
