Biography
Rachel Berkowitz was a union supporter arrested while picketing during the Baltimore dressmakers' strike, according to the Daily Worker of March 27, 1935, page 5. The newspaper reports that the manufacturers' attorney called her a gangster and professional striker, and that she was ordered to pay $50 and costs. The strike sought union recognition and a closed shop. The report supplies no precise formal charge, arrest date, term of imprisonment, release or actual duration.
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.
