Biography
Sam Paul was a Greek food worker who helped organize the 1931 Washington Hunger March and was arrested after an unemployment meeting. The Daily Worker of October 3, 1933 reports that he had spent the preceding five months in Cranston County Jail on a contempt commitment connected with deportation proceedings. The report says he refused to provide further evidence after the hearings had closed. Five months describes ongoing confinement at the time of reporting, rather than a completed term or an exact intake date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n237-oct-03-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
A Pawtucket worker’s report in the December 29, 1931 Daily Worker names Sam Paul as the section organizer whose arrest prompted four Young Communist League members to distribute protest leaflets and be arrested themselves. This is an earlier same-name Rhode Island organizing reference, without an established custody interval or automatic identification of the surname-only Paul in the December 31 East Boston list. It is not added to the later five-month Cranston contempt term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n312-NY-dec-29-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The issue names him or her in the campaign against deportation warrants targeting labor organizers. It adds ongoing immigration-defense context to the existing proceedings, without proving a new arrest, completed removal or precise physical release. Daily Worker, June 16, 1934, page 5. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n144-jun-16-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
Bond was reduced from $1,000 to $500 in the deportation proceedings. This adds a July 1934 procedural report, without treating bond reduction as an exact physical release or creating a duplicate immigration arrest. Daily Worker, July 3, 1934, page 6. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n158-jul-03-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6
Page 3’s November 7 Boston dispatch reports actual release after six months on contempt, immediate immigration rearrest and subsequent release on $1,000 bail furnished by the ILD. It identifies threatened deportation to Greece and attributes the releases to a New England protest campaign. The six months is the newspaper’s rounded report of the completed contempt interval, not a calculated number of days. The exact release and rearrest days and final deportation disposition are not given. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n268-nov-08-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
Sources
The Rhode Island entry reports actual release on $1,000 bond after contempt and deportation proceedings targeting the Greek worker. Six months is the contempt sentence, not proof of six completed months, and the exact release day remains unknown.
A Boston dispatch in the November 8, 1933 Daily Worker reports that Providence organizer Sam Paul had been freed after serving six months for contempt of court, was immediately rearrested by immigration authorities, and was then released on $1,000 bail furnished by the International Labor Defense. Unlike the earlier ongoing-confinement report and the later source's sentence-only wording, this report expressly describes six months served. It gives no exact contempt-release, immigration-rearrest or bail-release day and does not establish the length of the immigration detention or an aggregate custody total. Deportation to Greece remained threatened, not reported completed.
Daily Worker, November 8, 1933; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.