Biography
Leo Franklin was a furriers’ union activist convicted in the Mineola assault prosecution arising from the1926 NewYork fur strike. Helen Black’s October1928 Labor Defender account individually names Leo Franklin among nine convicted men receiving two-and-a-half-to-five-year sentences, with a stay pending appeal. The February1929 issue reports that Franklin and Maurice Malkin actually went to jail on January10 to serve those terms; the same issue identifies the two as serving at SingSing. No actual release date or completed duration is established. Accusations of an attack on a RockvilleCenter shop are allegations underlying the conviction; the labor-defense authors’ innocence claims are attributed advocacy.
The September 8, 1930 Laisve, page 5, reproduces an International Labor Defense political-prisoner directory. Its row prints Leo Franklin, a term of 2½–5 years, the year 1929 in the sentencing-year column, and confinement or correspondence location Box 51, Comstock, New York. This is an attributed historical directory entry; printed years and nominal terms are not exact intake dates or measured time served, and mailing boxes do not independently identify a prison. The directory contains stale or conflicting chronology, so this row does not override independently established conviction, death or release facts. Source: https://www.spauda2.org/laisve/archive/1930/1930-09-08-LAISVE.pdf#page=5
The fur-strike report says ten months had already been spent at Sing Sing under five-year sentences. Ten months is an intermediate observation, not complete imprisonment or an exact release date. Daily Worker, November 9, 1929, original PDF page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n211-NY-nov-09-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
Leo Franklin was a furriers’ union activist convicted in the Mineola assault prosecution arising from the1926 NewYork fur strike. Helen Black’s October1928 Labor Defender account individually names Leo Franklin among nine convicted men receiving two-and-a-half-to-five-year sentences, with a stay pending appeal. The February1929 issue reports that Franklin and Maurice Malkin actually went to jail on January10 to serve those terms; the same issue identifies the two as serving at SingSing. No actual release date or completed duration is established. Accusations of an attack on a RockvilleCenter shop are allegations underlying the conviction; the labor-defense authors’ innocence claims are attributed advocacy. Two-and-a-half to five years nominal sentence. Reported actual jail entry January10,1929 and later serving at SingSing; precise transfer and actual release days unknown. Sentence not treated as time served.
Labor Defender, February1929, original PDF pages4/26; full-name bridge October1928 page15.
A reported ten-month Sing Sing custody snapshot
The November 9, 1929 Daily Worker identifies Malkin and Leo Franklin as the two Mineola defendants already imprisoned at Sing Sing and says they had been there ten months to date. This is a contemporary reported duration at a point in ongoing custody, not a completed overall term or a basis for back-calculating admission, transfer or release. The article calls their nominal sentences five years, whereas the earlier independently reviewed accounts describe two-and-a-half-to-five-year terms; that wording difference is retained as attribution rather than replacing the old sentence. The separately supported January 10 jail entry and any independently recorded later release remain unchanged. No new episode or ten-month numerical lifetime total is added.
Daily Worker, November 9, 1929, original pages 1, 3. Contemporary allegations are attributed to the newspaper.
