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Morris Fleishman

Era:1920s
State:Ohio
Time Imprisoned:
2 Days
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Biography

Morris Fleishman was arrested for painting Cleveland sidewalks with signs calling workers to the August 1, 1929 antiwar demonstration and expressing support for the Soviet Union. The report dates the arrests to the day before the demonstration, indicating July 31. It supplies no individual statutory charge, physical discharge, sentence or total detention. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n129-NY-aug-06-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5

Sources

The Detroit report names Philip Bart, Morris Fleishman and Alfred E. Goetz as arrested when police broke up an election meeting. It says two detectives beat them unconscious, they were held incommunicado two days, and the court freed them without charges. The two-day interval is source-reported, with no exact endpoints; it is separate from later arrests.

Daily Worker, July 12, 1928, PDF page 1.

Cases

Charges: Arrest for painting antiwar demonstration notices on sidewalks; statutory count unprinted.
Arrested: Jul 31, 1929
Sentence: Actual July 31 arrest inferred from the day-before wording; individual physical release and complete duration unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n129-NY-aug-06-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
Charges: Election-meeting arrest in Detroit; no charge ultimately preferred.
Sentence: Reported held incommunicado two days, beaten and freed without charges by July12,1928. Exact endpoints unknown. Source: https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n164-NY-jul-12-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1