Biography
Marie Staff was an eighteen-year-old worker active with the International Labor Defense, Trade Union Unity League and Communist Party. The Daily Worker of February 18, 1930, page 2, reports that Judge Harold Simandl ordered her father to whip her in public and demanded that she give up her political work. She appeared at a Newark defense meeting the night of February 16 and declared she would continue distributing pamphlets and organizing. The article reports the court’s order, not an actual whipping. It gives no individual formal charge, exact arrest or jail-admission day, custodial sentence or release date. A separate collective reference to criminal-syndicalism defendants under high bail is not assigned to her individually. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n297-NY-feb-18-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
