Biography
Samuel D. Levine was one of nine Newark, New Jersey workers arrested at unemployment meetings in February 1930 and indicted under New Jersey's sedition law — facing up to fifteen years — for demonstrating against unemployment. He was a Communist candidate for the House, given two years' probation.
The Newark report describes jury selection in the sedition prosecution. The June 14 issue lists Levine, Flaiani and Graham as convicted, with sentencing announced for June 16. These reports precede the later recorded actual dispositions. Daily Worker, June 11, 1930, page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n140-NY-jun-11-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
Grover identifies Levine as a Freiheit journalist, Newark party leader and 1929 City Commission candidate. He attributes to Levine an account of police punching and kicking him separately from other February 1930 prisoners. The history places the meeting on February 11, whereas the existing record has February 4; the conflict is retained without overwriting that date. It reports the New Jersey Supreme Court overturning his sedition conviction in November 1930 because defense witnesses had been excluded for atheism. This is an appellate outcome, not a new arrest or exact physical release. Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=8 Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=12 Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=16
The official House Clerk returns for the November 4, 1930 congressional election list Samuel D. Levine as a candidate for New Jerseys10th Congressional District as a Communist, receiving 203 votes. This corroborates electoral activity rather than a fresh arrest or custody endpoint. Source: https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1930election.pdf#page=15
The September 10 Newark dispatch announces a September 14 joint ILD, ACLU and American Association for the Advancement of Atheism protest against exclusion of defense witnesses on religious-belief grounds. It recalls the earlier S. D. Levin and D. W. Graham trials and names Dave Rausen, John Pado, Joseph Lepshivicius, Morris Langer, Edward Childs and Albert Heder for trials planned that month. It describes the earlier proceedings as last May, while the existing Graham account records a June 10 conviction; the source wording is preserved without replacing the independently recorded conviction chronology. Neither the protest nor a scheduled trial establishes a new physical custody endpoint.
