Biography
Josephine Kaczor was a labor organizer and Brookwood Labor College graduate involved in the 1929–1930 hosiery strike in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, against contracts barring union membership. She was arrested three times during the strike. A jury acquitted eleven strikers of rioting, but the court assessed costs against them; Kaczor’s share was $150. The strikers refused payment and were jailed. They began a hunger strike and were released four days later.
Harvey O’Connor’s report in the January 18, 1930 Militant describes repeated arrests, photographing and fingerprinting of Kaczor during the Nazareth, Pennsylvania hosiery strike. It describes enforcement of an injunction limiting pickets at the Kraemer mill and twenty-six picket arrests overall. That collective count is not her individual arrest count and does not replace the more precise custody evidence recorded elsewhere. Source: https://www.themilitant.com/1930/0303/MIL0303.pdf#page=1
The March 15, 1930 New Leader, page 3, reports that eleven Nazareth hosiery strikers were acquitted of rioting but assessed court costs: $30 apiece for ten strikers, $150 for Kaczor, and $150 for the sheriff. The strikers refused to pay, were jailed, began a hunger strike immediately, and were released four days later. The district attorney then proposed charging the sheriff’s share to the county; the judge had not yet ruled. This corroborates the existing four-day completed interval without supplying calendar endpoints. The strike began November 4; publication alone does not establish the year of the particular costs detention. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-leader/1930/v10n06-mar-15-1930-NL.pdf#page=3
