Biography
Samuel Berland was manager of Laundry Workers International Union Local 280 during the Hotel Albert Laundry strike in New York. The newspaper reports that strikebreakers assaulted him and then had him arrested to forestall proceedings against themselves, an allegation attributed to the contemporary labor account. His case was scheduled for court on May 19, 1936; the scheduled appearance is not a verdict. No exact arrest day, charge, sentence, release or custody total is established. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n120-NY-May-19-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=4
Samuel Berland was manager of Laundry Workers International Union Local 280 in New York. Page 3 of the May 23, 1936 Daily Worker reports that eleven union members, including Berland and Levine, had been arrested on alleged felonious-assault charges during the nine-week Hotel Albert Hand Laundry strike. The union said the arrests followed attacks on its picket line and characterized the charges as retaliatory. Judge William Klapp at Fifty-fourth Street Court held Samuel Berland on $250 bail. A Wednesday Felony Court hearing was scheduled, not reported completed. The article supplies no exact individual arrest day, actual posting of bail, discharge, conviction or completed custody interval. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n124-NY-May-23-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=3
