Biography
Mike Sklarski was a militant coal striker imprisoned in the Allegheny County workhouse at Blawnox. The annual review pairs him with Anna Rasefsky and reports parole after two years. It gives no individual arrest or parole day and does not establish an uninterrupted personal custody interval from precise endpoints. He is not identified with Imperial Valley defendant Carl Sklar. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n02-feb-1934-lab-def.pdf#page=4
Labor Defender, October 1932 (PDF page 21): The Blawnox roster reports Sklarski currently serving a nominal three-to-six-year term and describes his five children and the family’s destitution. It places him in the 1931 miners’ strike cohort, corroborating confinement before his later documented parole; no new case or completed three-to-six-year duration is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1932/v08n10-oct-1932-LD.pdf#page=21
Page4 prints Mrs.Mike Sklarsky’s appeal for clothing, coal, a stove and food for herself and five children. It places her husband at Blawnox under a three-to-six-year inciting-to-riot sentence from the Pennsylvania coal strike of1931. The family, prison and term identify existing Sklarski despite the spelling variant. The imposed term does not replace the separately documented parole after two years.
