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Page 3 individually identifies Simon Harzigian, Communist city-engineer candidate and Lawrence Strikers Defense Committee member, as arrested with Biedenkapp on the Wood mill picket line November 9. It alleges police beat and kicked him and reports him actually free on $1,000 bail by the November 10 dispatch. No conviction or complete custody total is provided. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n271-NY-nov-11-1931-DW-LOC.pdf
Page 4 reports Harzigian arrested in Lowell during the 1934 general textile strike, convicted on three assault-and-battery counts involving loyal workers, but acquitted of disturbing the peace despite the judge's instruction. Sentencing was postponed until January. It identifies Judge James at Cambridge Superior Court and criticizes UTW organizer Mallory's testimony against him. This is a distinct 1934 strike prosecution after the already documented 1931 Lawrence arrest, with no future January outcome presumed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n302-Nat-dec-19-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 887. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Daily Worker, December 19, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
