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Minnie Smaller

Era:1930s
State:New Jersey
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Biography

Minnie Smaller was a dressmaker jailed after picketing during the 1932 South River strike.

The September 8, 1932 Daily Worker identifies Minnie Smaller as an Industrial Union dressmaker assisting the South River, New Jersey strike. It reports her arrest on the picket line, a sixty-day jail sentence, and efforts to obtain her release by habeas corpus. The imposed term is not a measured amount actually served.

Contemporary report, original PDF page 2.

Case

Charges: Picket-line arrest during the South River strike; statutory count unprinted
Sentence: Sixty days (imposed term; actual service unknown)