Biography
Smiley Chatok was a striker in the 1937 Youngstown, Ohio Little Steel strike. Authorities arrested him during the mass roundup on June 22 and held him for exactly forty hours because he carried a small pocketknife he had owned for twelve years. A contemporary account reported that he received only bread and coffee in custody.
Custody record
The contemporary July 13, 1937 New Masses report describes forty hours in custody over a penknife charge. Exact admission and release times are not established, so this is not recorded as two full days.
Sources: Source 1.
