Biography
Peter Lahowit was business agent of Window Cleaners Protective Union Local 8 in New York. Page 2 reports his arrest with Peter Darck on October 18, 1929 during the window-cleaners’ strike. Initially accused of felonious assault, they faced a reduced simple-assault charge at Fifth Street Court. The paper alleges that the complaining victims were gangsters or informers. It supplies no hearing outcome, physical jail discharge or actual duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-nat/v06-n234-NAT-dec-06-1929-DW-Q.pdf
The August 26, 1930 Daily Worker publishes a Welfare Island letter signed Peter Darck (printed Dark in the introduction), identifying Peter Lahowit (Lahawit in the subheading) as imprisoned with him in the window-cleaners’ strike assault case. Darck acknowledges the ILD’s August 14 letter and $3.50 money order, thanks it for weekly family support, and sends greetings to the August 22 Sacco–Vanzetti demonstration. His postscript says their lawyer and union had written that they must complete six-month terms and there was no hope of taking them out. The editorial introduction instead calls the term four months; this discrepancy is preserved. The signed letter establishes actual Welfare Island confinement, not six completed months or an exact physical release date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n205-NY-aug-26-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 429. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
The February 8, 1930 Daily Worker reports that judges Nolan, Healy and Kernochan, at Special Sessions, Part 6, found Peter Lahowit and Peter Darck guilty in the window-cleaners’ strike assault prosecution. This identifies the judges in Lahowit’s existing case. The article says sentencing would occur February 14; that was prospective, not proof of an imposed sentence on that day. It supplies no exact conviction day, jail-admission day, physical release or measured custody duration.
