Biography
Mike Turk was among the coal-strike defendants named in the July 24 Pittsburgh bulletin published in the Daily Worker, July 25, 1931, page 1. The arrests at Meadowland were connected to the broken-up Canonsburg United Mine Workers meeting. The newspaper alleges city authorities cooperated with UMW officials to frame militant strikers. It reports 2,500-dollar bail for each defendant except Leo Thompson, whose bail was 5,000 dollars. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n178-NY-jul-25-1931-DW-LOC.pdf
The November 24, 1931 report individually lists this National Miners Union strike prisoner at Allegheny County Workhouse, Blawnox. The roster establishes actual confinement during the mine-strike repression. It does not supply an individual statutory count, exact initial arrest, physical release or completed custody duration. Daily Worker, November 24, 1931, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n282-NY-nov-24-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 585. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
