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Lou Rose

Era:1930s
State:New York
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Biography

Lou Rose and Larry Levy were arrested Friday, May 29, 1936 while picketing the Kitty Kelly shoe store on Fourteenth Street, New York, and released the same night. The June 2 report links the arrests to a police rule limiting each store to one picket, which the paper challenged as unlawful. No formal charge, verdict or measured custody hours is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n132-NY-jun-02-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=3

Case

Charges: Arrest during Kitty Kelly shoe-store strike picketing; formal charge not printed.
Arrested: May 29, 1936
Released: May 29, 1936
Sentence: Arrested and released the same night, May 29, 1936. No exact custody hours or imposed sentence supplied.