Biography
Pat Cush, a sixty-eight-year-old labor organizer described in the February 24, 1936 Daily Worker, was serving thirty days in jail in 1929 for speaking on Pittsburgh North Side on the first Red Anti-War Day. The Amalgamated Association expelled him during his imprisonment. This is an actual political-speech custody report; neither an exact arrest day nor exact physical discharge or total served time is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n047-NY-feb-24-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=6
George E. Powers’s page 4 strike account prints Pat Cush and John Meldon as Metal Workers Industrial League organizers seized by local anti-strike forces, taken before Mayor Moore, then driven out of Mansfield and threatened with violence if they returned. Nearby railway workers reportedly prevented a further attack. The coercive removal belongs to the May 1931 strike, not an imposed prison sentence; no complete detention duration is given.
The July 31, 1934 Daily Worker identifies this portrait as Pat Cush and names him president of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, preparing for its Pittsburgh convention. The photograph is reproduced directly from the original page with its printed framing preserved. This caption documents his union role; it supplies no new custody dates or served duration.
