Biography
Michael Gold is individually named in John Howard Lawson’s report among writers and professional workers arrested June 6, 1934 while peacefully picketing the Macaulay publishing offices at 381 Fourth Avenue in support of striking office employees. Police took them to the station; Magistrate Jonah Goldstein demanded an end to picketing, then ordered an immediate trial after they objected. The defense secured unconditional release. The report calls the group eighteen but prints sixteen individual names; no additional names are invented. No statutory charge or measured custody total is stated. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n136-jun-07-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
Daily Worker, April 25, 1935, pages 1 and 5: A named portrait identifies Michael Gold as proletarian novelist and Daily Worker columnist among participants in the First American Writers Congress public opening at Mecca Temple on April 26. This is announced cultural and political activity, not a new arrest. Gold also writes the Change the World column; Cowley's image is an identified drawn portrait rather than a photograph. Existing portraits of Frank and Browder were preserved; missing portraits of Gold and Cowley were extracted with their original captions retained in page evidence. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n099-NAT-apr-25-1935-DW-Q.pdf
The July 1931 issue names Gold in the elected presidium of the June 14 Workers Cultural Federation conference and among the writers organizing the new Prisoners Relief Fund with the International Labor Defense. The fund sought five dollars monthly for each prisoner and twenty dollars for dependents, with members meeting overhead themselves. These are fundraising goals, not proof of individual payments or additional custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1931/v07n02-jul-1931-New-Masses.pdf#page=41
Daily Worker, April 25, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
The dictionary identifies the radical author Michael Gold as a New York writer, editor, playwright and journalist who worked for The Call, helped found The New Masses, and wrote a Daily Worker column. It records his death on May 14, 1967 in Terra Linda, California. Its alternative birth years, 1893 and 1894, are preserved as uncertainty rather than selecting a date. This is the author associated with the contemporary Daily Worker profile, distinct from the lawyer and Civil War veteran with the same name listed immediately above.
Jacob Rader Marcus, editor, and Judith M. Daniels, associate editor, The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography, printed page 204 (PDF page 207).
