Biography
M. Dizdar was the International Labor Defense representative in Farrell, Pennsylvania. A worker correspondent’s report in the Daily Worker of July9,1930 describes police taking her to city hall, inspecting the literature she sold and questioning her about prisoner-defense work. Officers released her after about an hour and a half because they could not press charges, while warning her against distributing labor literature to Black workers. The report does not supply her full first name or exact detention day.