Biography
Lillian Silverman took part in unemployed-workers' demonstrations in Los Angeles in 1930. Police beat her unconscious during the protests, and she was taken to a hospital. Contemporary reports published her portrait alongside accounts of the police attacks. The International Labor Defense listed her among prisoners in the Los Angeles jails with a six-month sentence.
Page 3 individually names this worker among Los Angeles arrests for distributing Russian Revolution anniversary handbills in the week before the November 11 dispatch, with ILD-furnished bail actually reported. The list contains seven names despite a stated eight arrested. This 1929 episode is distinct from the subsequent 1930 unemployment cases; no exact day or final handbill verdict is given. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n213-NY-nov-12-1929-DW-LOC.pdf
The Behind the Bars directory on printed page 4 lists this prisoner under Los Angeles County Jail, California, with six months, 1930. This is an attributed historical directory entry: the year and nominal term do not establish an intake day, uninterrupted imprisonment, completed service or physical release.
Daily Worker, November 12, 1929; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
