Biography
Simon Harzigan was a militant member of the Textile Workers Protective Union in Lowell. A rank-and-file correspondent account in the Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 4 reports that he was sentenced to three months in jail for assault and battery during the textile-strike conflict. It criticizes union officials for calling police to eject him from a meeting and identifies a Booth Mills worker called Monty as a witness against him. These claims are attributed to the correspondents. The printed surname is visually checked; the account later prints the given name as Simos. Exact arrest, sentence, jail admission and release dates, and actual time served, are not established.
