Biography
Pearl Kleinman was a dress striker in New York. The Daily Worker of March 13, 1931, page 1, names Sarah Spewack, Rose Elkus and Pearl Kleinman as strikers sentenced to the workhouse by Magistrate Dwyer amid the police and court campaign against dress-strike picketing. The article discusses injunctions sought by the Jersey Dress Company and Brown Dress Company and distinguishes the three sentenced workers from May Feldman, who was held under $2,500 bail. It does not establish Pearl's statutory charge, sentence length, exact admission or release date. No identification with another person of the same name is assumed.
The March 12, 1931 report explicitly says Pearl Kleinman and A. Suivak/Sulvak spent one and two days in jail respectively for picketing. Thus it gives one actual day for Pearl in this report, separate from the subsequent workhouse sentence reported March 13. It does not establish the individual admission or release days, or prove that the brief detention and later sentence were continuous; no additive custody counter or invented second case is created. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n062-NY-mar-12-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
