Biography
Lena Movich was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926, page 1: The front-page report names this picket among those beginning terms at Cook County Jail under Judge Denis E. Sullivan for violating the injunction during the 1924 garment strike. Individual listed sentence: 20 days and a $200 fine. About four hundred fellow union members accompanied the defendants and red carnations were handed out. The article’s relative “today” does not establish an exact physical admission day. This is the already recorded 1926 imprisonment; later release evidence and any conflicting duration reports remain in the existing case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n131-NY-jun-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf
The June 30 report describes Movich’s twenty-day service in the Cook County garment-picketing prosecution. This reinforces the existing actual-service evidence without assigning an unsupported release day. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n144-NY-jun-30-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
