Biography
Patrick Mangan of Plymouth, Pennsylvania, was identified as a militant leader in the Glen Alden coal strike in the Daily Worker of March 27, 1935, page 2. The Wilkes-Barre report says Presiding Judge McLean sentenced him to one year in prison for slapping a strikebreaker in the face. It situates the prosecution amid mass picketing and demands for the release of twenty jailed strike leaders. The precise statutory charge, sentencing day, prison admission, release and actual service are not established by the report.
Daily Worker, February 21, 1935, page 2: The February 20 Wilkes-Barre dispatch says the cases of Pat and Harry Mangan from the preceding strike came before the court that morning. It alleges that George Ramovich of UMWA Local 1194 paid witnesses $6.50 each for attending against the UAMP activists. This is attributed reporting of a hearing and witness payments, not a new conviction, jail admission or an automatic link between the two defendants’ later outcomes.
Reporting on the Plymouth anthracite strike, the February 26, 1935 Daily Worker identified him as strike leader Pat Mangan and reported his assault-and-battery conviction. The article challenged the company and union officials’ influence over the prosecution witnesses; it did not give an additional jail duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n049-Nat-feb-26-1935-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 259. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
