Biography
Rose Kohn was a Young Communist League member and Communist candidate for the Cleveland city council. Police arrested her for speaking at an outdoor Communist meeting on August26,1929. The November14 Cleveland dispatch reports a one-year probation sentence by Judge Sewicki on a disorderly-conduct charge after repeated postponements. Probation is not a year in prison; the article does not establish an actual jail duration or physical discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n216-NY-nov-15-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3