Biography
Max Shachtman was a communist writer and editor of the Labor Defender. Max Shachtman was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demonstration against U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua, when police broke up the "Hands Off Nicaragua" meeting in New York's financial district and jailed the speakers and dozens of workers. Most of the defendants were given five days.
The July 11 report announced the next morning's court hearings for these July 3 anti-imperialist demonstration defendants, charged with disorderly conduct. Nathan Kaplan was separately charged with felonious assault. This gives more specific charges than the initial July 4 collective account. Daily Worker, July 11, 1928, original PDF page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n163-NY-jul-11-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
1920s custody review: Original Daily Worker city editions establish July 3 police-station confinement (July 4, pages 1-2), a still-pending hearing scheduled for July 12 (July 11, page 1), and a public speech on July 13 (July 14, page 1). Together these support July release at month precision, not an exact day or uninterrupted ten-day detention. The five-day term and total previously copied from other defendants are removed. The July 16 national edition repeats the July 14 report, so its relative-day wording must not shift the event to July 15. Existing photograph retained.
Pages 5 and 8 report that the National Guard expelled Cannon and Shachtman from Minneapolis during suppression of radical labor reporting, later permitting return as reporters following union pressure. The paper identifies their editorial roles with The New Militant and The New International. This is reported coercive military expulsion, distinct from the existing judicial prosecution; no exact day, jail admission or measured period is printed.
The July12 hearing dismissed the WallStreet protest cases of Shachtman,D.Benjamin,GeorgePowers and I.Zimmerman. MagistrateSimpson said the defendants exercised free speech without breaking the peace. This establishes dismissal, not an independently timed physical exit.
