Biography
Nat Leroy was an unemployed New York worker arrested during an anti-eviction gathering in Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of December 28, 1932, page 2, identifies him as Nat LeRoy and says police beat him after attacking a crowd that had restored furniture to a woman evicted from 899 DeKalb Avenue. Its December 29 report, page 1, says Magistrate Steers of the Gates Avenue Brooklyn Court sentenced Leroy to 20 days in jail after he protested police violence against his wife. He and his wife had a ten-month-old child. The source does not give the exact arrest or sentencing day, statutory charge or eventual release date.
The Daily Worker of December 8, 1934, page 2, identifies Nat LeRoy as an Unemployment Council organizer among eight arrested when police ousted a Williamsburg relief-station delegation. This is a separate 1934 prosecution from his 1932 anti-eviction conviction. ILD lawyer Harry Alexander protested police intimidation; Magistrate Dwyer declined to continue, and a Bridge Plaza Court hearing was announced for the following Monday. No individual verdict, sentence, exact arrest day or custody endpoints are established.
