Biography
June Croll Gordon, born Sonia Croll in Odessa in 1901, was a Communist labor organizer, anti-fascist activist and founding executive director of the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women’s Clubs. Kentucky authorities detained her for four months in 1931–1932 because of her organizing in support of striking miners. Immigration authorities arrested and held her for deportation again in 1933 before releasing her. In 1960 the Immigration and Naturalization Service issued another deportation order based on her 1928 return from Canada, but the reviewed record does not show custody during that proceeding. She died in 1967.
The June 15, 1933 Daily Worker’s discussion of civil liberties identifies American-born NTWU organizer June Croll among eight Boston-district workers held for deportation. The same issue describes her speaking in Salem, so its wording is retained as immigration proceedings rather than proof of uninterrupted current jail. No new physical custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n143-NY-jun-15-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The April 20, 1932 Daily Worker identifies June Croll among speakers at the April 18 Irving Plaza meeting and explicitly says she had just been released on bail after four months imprisoned in Kentucky. This corroborates the already recorded four-month actual detention and establishes liberty by that appearance, without an exact physical-release day or a second four-month term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n094-NY-apr-20-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Labor Defender, August 1933, PDF page 22: The district-news report identifies June Croll as the National Textile Workers Union organizer arrested while organizing textile workers and says she and Anna Bloch had both physically been released from deportation detention. It credits protests and proof of American birth. The American-born characterization conflicts with her documented Odessa birthplace and is retained as the contemporary report’s claim rather than a correction of birthplace. Accomplished release is established by this August 1933 issue; no exact discharge date or complete duration is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n08-aug-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=22
The Boston deportation report names June Croll among eight other militants described as held for deportation while reporting a future surrender order for Bernard Creegan. The newspaper calls Croll American-born, conflicting with the existing Odessa-born biography; that birthplace assertion is not adopted. Her existing 1933 immigration case is corroborated without deriving an arrest day, discharge day, completed deportation or custody duration.
The review reports completed release from immigration detention targeting her textile-union organizing. Its American-born claim conflicts with the existing Odessa biography and is not adopted. No exact discharge day or executed deportation is inferred.
Page 3 reports Danbury fur strikers defending union organizer June Croll after a Syrian American Club speaker called her a jailbird, explicitly recalling her arrest in the New Haven strike. This is retrospective corroboration of that arrest, not a new Danbury detention or a sentence length.
A December 24, 1930 Daily Worker report on the New Haven Lesnow shirt strike identifies textile-union organizer June Croll as sentenced to 60 days and describes a resolution demanding her immediate release. The source supports an existing jail episode by that report, but not 60 days actually served or exact custody endpoints. Primary newspaper source, PDF page 2.
