Biography
Sam Blumenthal was sentenced to three months in jail by Judge Simondle in Newark First Precinct Court on March 4, 1931, according to the Daily Worker of March 5, page 2. The prosecution arose from unemployment demonstrations on January 28 and February 7 demanding relief and unemployment insurance. The source does not assign his individual arrest to one of those two dates or specify a formal charge or release date. The article says he was not an Unemployed Council member but had helped arrange bail for other arrested workers; the judge questioned him about his daughter’s Communist activity.
Grover identifies Samuel Blumenthal, father of Young Communist League activist Lottie Blumenthal, as a Newark hardware merchant and an arrestee at a January 1931 City Hall unemployment demonstration. This appears to be the existing Sam Blumenthal unemployment case, whose contemporary account also notes his daughters political activity; it is corroborating identity/context, without assuming a new arrest or replacing the unresolved January 28/February 7 date assignment. Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=10 Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=17
