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Page 6’s August 12 Buffalo dispatch identifies Manning Johnson as the recent Communist district organizer, arrested Thursday, August 9. Attorney Schmiell was arrested while asking police to release him because no charge existed. A Friday protest meeting against his treatment was raided and speaker William C. McCuiston seized. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n193-sect-one-aug-13-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Pages 1–2 identify Johnson as a Black organizer of the Cafeteria Workers Union and announce him with Mother Bloor for the Brooklyn May Day meeting at Arcadia Hall, 168 Halsey Street. This is organizing context; the scheduled appearance is not used to infer a particular release day from his earlier Buffalo arrest. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n102-NAT-apr-29-1935-DW-Q.pdf
The August 10 Buffalo dispatch on page 2 reports a serious beating by thugs and police the previous night, followed by jail detention without bail on open charges and transfer to City Hospital. His attorney was arrested when seeking bail. This supplies conditions and hospital location within the established August 9 episode, without a release or new accusation. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n192-aug-11-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 3 reports attorney Schmiell instituted habeas corpus proceedings on August 14 for Johnson and Andrew Fetzig. This is a defense application in the existing Buffalo case, not proof that a release writ was granted. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n196-aug-16-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 490. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Daily Worker, April 29, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
A Buffalo dispatch dated November 25 in the November 26, 1934 Daily Worker reports that Manning Johnson, formerly the Communist Party district organizer there, was acquitted the previous day, November 24, of malicious mischief by a City Court jury after a three-day trial. It ties the prosecution to his August 9 arrest following an incident at a cafe owned by Danahy, and attributes severe beating by police and two weeks of City Hospital treatment to that episode. The report names Stanley Chmiell as International Labor Defense counsel. Acquittal is a legal disposition; the report does not establish a physical release day, jail-admission day or complete custody total. The hospital-treatment interval is not entered as time imprisoned.
