Biography
Sidney Grant was a Boston labor attorney who represented the shoe workers during the 1937 Lewiston-Auburn strike in Maine. After he addressed meetings supporting continuation of the strike, employers sought to have him punished for violating an injunction. Grant and six union leaders were convicted of contempt and sentenced to six months in jail. They were released on bail while appealing the judgment. On June 30, 1938, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court dismissed the contempt proceedings because the required sworn petitions had not been filed.
Aaron Levenstein's July 31, 1937 account identifies Powers Hapgood and attorney Sidney Grant among the Maine shoe-strike defendants sentenced to six months for violating an injunction. It reports that they were out on bail pending appeal after having served "some two months." Bail had initially been denied; Arthur Garfield Hays obtained their release through a writ of habeas corpus while acting for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Workers' Defense League. The reported service is approximate and distinct from the six-month sentence. The article supplies no exact admission or discharge day and does not establish a measured sixty-day total.
Socialist Call, July 31, 1937, original PDF page 2, Strike for Closed Shop Illegal in N.J..