Biography
Sam Layman was a Philadelphia needle-trades activist whose arrest during a union meeting at headquarters and several days of solitary confinement in Moyamensing jail were reported by the Daily Worker in November 1929. The report says he was released on $2,500 bail after being charged with assault and battery. It attributes to the magistrate a refusal to hear his testimony because he was a Communist. The alleged assault, judicial bias and conditions are contemporary newspaper and prisoner accounts, not independent findings here. No exact arrest, admission or release date, completed case outcome or measured total duration is established.
Sam Layman was a Philadelphia needle-trades activist whose arrest during a union meeting at headquarters and several days of solitary confinement in Moyamensing jail were reported by the Daily Worker in November 1929. The report says he was released on $2,500 bail after being charged with assault and battery. It attributes to the magistrate a refusal to hear his testimony because he was a Communist. The alleged assault, judicial bias and conditions are contemporary newspaper and prisoner accounts, not independent findings here. No exact arrest, admission or release date, completed case outcome or measured total duration is established.
Daily Worker, November 9, 1929, original pages 1–2, complete Amalgamated Helps Terror report.
