Biography
Stanley Straukas was an unemployed steel worker arrested at Riverdale, Illinois for distributing the Daily Worker. The June 3, 1935 newspaper, page 3, reports that his trial had been moved to Harvey City Hall for a jury hearing on Wednesday, June 5, at 10 a.m. It describes a threat of prosecution under Illinois criminal syndicalism law and a union/community campaign urging workers to attend. Arrest is reported as completed, while the hearing and possible syndicalism prosecution remain prospective; exact custody dates, charge actually filed, outcome and release are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n132-NAT-jun-03-DW-Q.pdf
