Biography
Steve Katovis was a strike picket shot on January 16, 1930. The January 24 report says he lay dying in hospital with a policeman stationed at the foot of his bed day and night. This documents guarded hospital custody, without a printed criminal charge, admission day or completed duration. That contemporary report did not yet report his death. Daily Worker, January 24, 1930, page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n276-NY-jan-24-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
The fifth-anniversary account published January 24, 1935 expressly dates his death January 24, 1930 and identifies Lincoln Hospital as the site. It says he remained a prisoner there with police constantly at his cot, limiting visits to two minutes, and attributes harassment and denial of adequate medical attention to the guards. These treatment claims are the Communist newspaper’s account. It identifies him as a Food Workers Industrial Union picket at 161st Street and Union Avenue in the Bronx and a Communist Party member since 1921. The later report establishes death in guarded hospital custody; it does not establish a new arrest, an exact hospital-admission day, or a criminal charge. Source: Daily Worker, January 24, 1935, page 1, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n021-Nat-jan-24-1935-DW-LOC.pdf.
The pamphlet review reports that Katovis died under police guard in the hospital after eight days, following the January 16, 1930 Bronx picketing shooting. It identifies birthplace Greece and birth year 1890. The eight days is reported guarded hospital custody, not a criminal sentence. No new medical diagnosis is inferred.
Harrison George’s editorial recalls the killing of strike picket Steve Katovis and criticizes the grand jury’s exoneration of the policeman. This is retrospective defense context; the editorial does not establish a new custody episode or change the separately documented guarded-hospital death.
