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Louis Sokoloff

Era:1920s
State:Illinois
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Biography

Louis Sokoloff was a Chicago International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union picket imprisoned for picketing during the 1924 strike. Page 3 of the Daily Worker, September 10, 1926, reports that he was the last of the jailed garment pickets to be released, greeting a union committee when he left his cell at noon on Sunday. He had received fifty days, and the account places him with thirty-seven other sentenced union members. It also describes a letter from fellow prisoners praising the jailed unionists. The Sunday release is relative to publication; no precise physical admission or release day is independently established here. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-nat/v03-n203-NAT-sep-10-1926-DW-RIAZ-op.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 415. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Imprisonment for Chicago garment-strike picketing during the 1924 strike; exact statutory count not stated in this report.
Sentence: Fifty days imposed; reported released at noon on Sunday before the September 10, 1926 issue. Physical custody endpoints and separately measured completed duration are unresolved.