Biography
Steve Gleason was a Communist Party senatorial candidate in Albany County during the 1934 election campaign. The November 2 Albany dispatch continued in the November 3 Daily Worker reports that he remained in jail on a felonious-assault charge during the hunger-march campaign, with his head in bandages, after other delegates returned to the convention. The account establishes his individual ongoing confinement but gives no precise custody endpoints or complete duration. The allegation is not a conviction, and the other delegates’ two-day stay is not assigned to him.
Steve Gleason was a Communist Party senatorial candidate in Albany County during the 1934 election campaign. The November 2 Albany dispatch continued in the November 3 Daily Worker reports that he remained in jail on a felonious-assault charge during the hunger-march campaign, with his head in bandages, after other delegates returned to the convention. The account establishes his individual ongoing confinement but gives no precise custody endpoints or complete duration. The allegation is not a conviction, and the other delegates’ two-day stay is not assigned to him.
The Albany dispatch is dated November 2; its continuation identifies Gleason individually as still jailed while other delegates returned to the convention. Their two-day confinement is not assigned as his full total or used to calculate an arrest or release day. The political campaign role and actual jail confinement are explicit, while conviction, sentence, precise intake and physical release are unestablished. His legal given name is not expanded beyond the printed Steve.
Daily Worker, November 3, 1934, page 5, Albany Masses Cheer Marchers, continued from page 1.
