Biography
Morris Langer was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 and indicted under New Jersey's sedition law — facing up to fifteen years — for demonstrating against unemployment. He was indicted and awaiting trial.
The April 17, 1931 Daily Worker reports that Langer, a fur rabbit-dressing worker and leader in the Jersey City strike, was sentenced the previous day to thirty days for attempting to picket. The case was appealed. This is distinct from his February 1930 Newark sedition prosecution; the nominal sentence is not a measured custody total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n093-NY-apr-17-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Grover describes Langer as Local 25 fur-workers leader, a Hollander employee from 1910, union member from 1913, local vice-president from 1920 and Communist from 1925. His history places the Newark jobless-meeting arrest on February 11, 1930, conflicting with the existing February 4 entry; neither is silently replaced. It reports the outstanding indictments against Langer and the other untried defendants dropped after the November 1930 appellate decision. In 1933 Langer led the Hollander organizing strike and died three days after a bomb attached to his cars ignition exploded; that assassination occurred outside reported custody, not as a prison death. Exact bomb and death days are not supplied. Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=6 Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=12 Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=16 Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=20
The official House Clerk returns for the November 4, 1930 congressional election list Morris Langer as a candidate for New Jerseys5th Congressional District as a Communist, printed Morris Langler and receiving 226 votes. This corroborates electoral activity rather than a fresh arrest or custody endpoint. Source: https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1930election.pdf#page=15
The September 10 Newark dispatch announces a September 14 joint ILD, ACLU and American Association for the Advancement of Atheism protest against exclusion of defense witnesses on religious-belief grounds. It recalls the earlier S. D. Levin and D. W. Graham trials and names Dave Rausen, John Pado, Joseph Lepshivicius, Morris Langer, Edward Childs and Albert Heder for trials planned that month. It describes the earlier proceedings as last May, while the existing Graham account records a June 10 conviction; the source wording is preserved without replacing the independently recorded conviction chronology. Neither the protest nor a scheduled trial establishes a new physical custody endpoint.
