Biography
Minnie Seidel was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926, page 1: The front-page report names this picket among those beginning terms at Cook County Jail under Judge Denis E. Sullivan for violating the injunction during the 1924 garment strike. Individual listed sentence: 5 days and a $150 fine. The individual entry says five days despite the headline’s ten-to-sixty-day range. About four hundred fellow union members accompanied the defendants and red carnations were handed out. The article’s relative “today” does not establish an exact physical admission day. This is the already recorded 1926 imprisonment; later release evidence and any conflicting duration reports remain in the existing case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n131-NY-jun-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf
The June 19, 1926 Chicago garment-prisoner account adds personal and prison-life detail. The original page identifies Minnie Seidel, whose first name is omitted in the native text extraction, as released after five actual days and honored with flowers at the union reception. The report supplies no exact discharge day or basis to back-calculate admission. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n135-NY-jun-19-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The June 22 report recounts Seidel’s return to greet Ida Dubnow and Fannie Goldberg after her own Friday release. It describes her defense of organizing and the union’s provision of food, personal context within the already recorded five-day detention. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n137-NY-jun-22-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
1920s remaining-entry review: The Daily Worker of March 14, 1924, pages 1 and 3, names Minnie Seidel with Morris Kravis and Eugenia Schlacter as the three garment strikers arrested the previous day by deputy sheriffs and brought before Judge Denis Sullivan for alleged violation of the Graceline Dress Company injunction. This supplies March 13, 1924 as the reported arrest date. The continuation describes bail of $500 each; the arrest must not be treated as the beginning of continuous imprisonment through her later five-day jail term. The June 22, 1926 report and named photograph caption support the existing release and photograph. The exact admission day for the 1926 term remains unverified; June is retained at month precision rather than calculated backward from five days.
Contemporary newspaper; Contemporary newspaper
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
