Biography
Sol Wollin was a fur workers’ organizer who joined an unemployed-workers delegation at the American Federation of Labor furriers’ convention in Philadelphia. Convention officials forcibly ejected the delegation, and police arrested the delegates on May 16, 1932, accusing them of inciting a riot. Wollin was held under $1,500 bail. He was later elected an organizer of the fur workers’ industrial union in 1934.
Labor Defender, July 1932, records the May 16 arrest of the unemployed delegation at the AFL furriers’ convention in Philadelphia’s Labor Institute. It says officials forcibly ejected the delegation and police then arrested its four members for inciting riot, with $1,500 bail each. This corroborates the existing episode without a new case, an invented release or an assumed continuous stay through July. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1932/v08n07-jul-1932-LD.pdf#page=16
The May 17, 1932 Philadelphia report published May 18 explicitly says the four fur-convention defendants had just been released on $1,500 bail each. It prints Zipkin, Wollen, Schwartz and Bogdansky, probable variants of the already recorded May 16 cohort Sitkin, Wollin, Schwartz and Bogansky. Unlike the July Labor Defender account describing an unemployed delegation, this report calls them employed fur workers. Both the spelling and employment discrepancy are retained. Liberty by this report does not establish an exact physical discharge day or a measured continuous interval. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n118-NY-may-18-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
