Biography
Robert Wolf was a writer. Robert Wolf was arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demonstration against U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua, when police broke up the "Hands Off Nicaragua" meeting in New York's financial district and jailed the speakers and dozens of workers. Most of the defendants were given five days.
The July 3 dispatch, continued on page 2, named these participants among those arrested in the Wall Street anti-imperialist demonstration and jailed at the second precinct. The report gave collective charges of obstructing traffic, speeches to incite riot and insulting an officer, with hearings scheduled that night and International Labor Defense representation. Later case-specific reporting may differ from these initial collective charges. Daily Worker, July 4, 1928, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n157-NY-jul-04-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The July 11 report said these five Wall Street demonstration defendants remained virtually incommunicado and were expected to be released Friday afternoon. Men were held at the Tombs and women at Jefferson Market Jail. It described refusal of books, newspapers and family access to Minor. The expected Friday release is prospective, not proof of release. Daily Worker, July 11, 1928, original PDF page 1. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n163-NY-jul-11-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
1920s remaining-entry review: The July 12, 1928 Daily Worker, page 1, names this defendant among the jailed demonstrators due for release the following day. The July 14 issue, page 1, confirms that Robert Minor and Robert Wolf had been freed from the Tombs after the five-day sentence and welcomed at the previous afternoon's rally. Both complete original pages were visually checked. Together they establish July 13 release. The initial July 3 arrest is retained, but is not used as the beginning of an uninterrupted ten-day imprisonment; the later sentence admission remains month precision.
July 1928 Wall Street prosecution
The July 10, 1928 Daily Worker reports that the hearing and sentencing took place the previous day, July 9, after the July 3 Hands Off Nicaragua demonstration. It individually names Robert Wolf among five defendants given five days in the Tombs or a $25 fine, and states that all eight convicted defendants chose jail. Two other defendants had their cases dismissed; separate defendants still awaited trial. The five-day sentence is not used to calculate an actual discharge day or to assume uninterrupted custody from July 3.
The Daily Worker, July 10, 1928, pages 1–2, reports that Magistrate Maurice H. Gottlieb sentenced the July 3 Wall Street anti-imperialist demonstrators on July 9. Robert Minor, Rebecca Grecht, Harriet Silverman, Emanuel George and Robert Wolf each received five days in the Tombs or a $25 fine and chose jail. Phil Frankfeld, Fanny Plotkin and Anna Bloch received two days or $10; Kate Gitlow and Sophie Melman were dismissed. This contemporary report documents actual committal after the hearing, not completed service of the entire nominal term. The inherited July 1 storage value is explicitly marked month precision in the existing record; it remains month precision, not an asserted July 1 admission day. This report does not establish a discharge day or demonstrate that the previous initial detention began on the sentencing day.
Reviewed original source 2084, relevant PDF pages stated in note.
The issue anticipates release July 13 after the five-day sentences imposed Monday July 9 for the July 3 Wall Street anti-imperialist demonstration. The announcement is prospective and does not itself establish physical release. The article once misprints the demonstration as July 13, while the Plotkin report and event context give July 3.
The completed UnionSquare welcome occurred yesterday,July13,1928 after this worker’s physical release from the five-day WallStreet-protest sentence. Minor and Wolf came out of the Tombs; Grecht and Silverman came out of the Workhouse. The retrospective report confirms release rather than merely announcing it. Earlier July3 arrest and intervening bail are not silently treated as one continuous term.
The July13 issue announces this afternoon’s UnionSquare welcome for the four named workers after their five-day WallStreet-protest terms. This is release-day reporting, but does not supply an individual physical discharge time; the next issue’s account of the completed welcome provides stronger retrospective confirmation.
