Biography
Saul Stark was sentenced to 60 days 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.
Grover reports that Stark suffered a fractured skull during the later January 1931 Newark City Hall crackdown. This supplements the existing unemployment-demonstration prosecution, without selecting one of its unresolved individual arrest days. Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=17
Grover separately documents Starks arrest for handing out leaflets before the mid-July 1930 ACLU street-meeting test at Springfield Avenue and Broome Street. He was placed in a police wagon before the professor speakers began; this predates the existing 1931 relief-protest case. The source gives the month and context, but no statutory charge, final outcome or complete custody length. Source: https://www.newarkhistorysociety.org/images/articles/resources/PDF/NHS-Communists-061813.pdf#page=14
Page1 reports JudgeBrennan’s August10,1931 reversal of the conviction from the joint ILD/ACLU Newark street-meeting test case. The reversal is appellate disposition,not independently documented physical discharge. This is separate from Stark’s later unemployment-relief prosecution.
