Biography
S. K. Davis was sentenced to 50 days in a 1934 Minneapolis relief demonstration case.
The April 20, 1934 Daily Worker identifies him as a fired CWA worker and union leader among nineteen arrested in the April 6 Minneapolis unemployment and CWA demonstration. It reports the end of their trial before Judge White and a sentencing reserved for April 20. It describes defense efforts to obtain blankets for jailed defendants forced to sleep on bare tile floors. The report refines his arrest date but does not establish that the subsequently recorded fifty-day sentence had already been completed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n095-apr-20-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Labor Defender, June 1934: In his signed account of the April 6 Minneapolis relief demonstration, Davis describes the elected committee of twenty-three arrested while leaving the City Council after presenting its demands. He reports thirty-seven total arrests and twenty defendants sentenced May 4, including his fifty-day workhouse term. He describes prisoners electing committees, distributing ILD food and communicating with families by automobile because visits were forbidden. These are reported arrest circumstances and imposed punishment, not proof that all fifty days were completed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n06-jun-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=6
The June 1934 account dates sentencing in the represented Minneapolis demonstration prosecution to May 4 and identifies the trial judge as Clyde White. It does not establish a precise physical discharge or uninterrupted arrest-to-sentence custody. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n06-jun-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=6