Biography
Murry Melvin was one of the Buffalo, New York workers jailed in 1930 for demanding "work or wages" in the unemployment demonstrations, drawing a sentence of 100 days.
The Buffalo arrest list prints M. Melvin among workers arrested for open-air speaking. The context is Buffalo unemployment organizing, distinct from New York printer Murray Melvin. This report gives no exact arrest date or individual service total. Daily Worker, May 12, 1930, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n368-NY-may-12-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
