Biography
Paul Novak was arrested for distributing leaflets during the Food Workers Industrial Union strike at Carnival Lunch, 140 East 14th Street, New York. Page 6 of the November 8, 1933 Daily Worker reports a ten-dollar fine or three days in jail. Unable to pay, Novak chose the jail sentence. The article supplies no exact arrest, admission or discharge date; the three days is the imposed alternative he selected, not independently verified completed service. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n268-nov-08-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 592. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.