Biography
Steve Kurepa was secretary of a United Mine Workers local at Harwick, Pennsylvania. He attended a Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting of striking miners at Cheswick on August 22, 1927. After state police dispersed the meeting with gunfire, clubs, tear gas and mounted charges, troopers arrested Kurepa late that night near the union hall, beat him, and held him under $3,000 bail on a riot charge. He was later released and rearrested. Kurepa was out on bail when the mass trial began in January 1929, but the exact custody endpoints and final verdict have not been located.
The Oakmont hearing account names Kurepa among workers actually released after bail was furnished, specifying $3,000 for him. Allen Davis represented the defendants before Justice Blair. Seven hours refers to the proceedings, not the entire imprisonment; unnamed workers still held in the county jail are not assigned to Kurepa. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1927/1927-nat/v04-n192-NAT-aug-26-1927-DW-Q.pdf#page=2
1920s remaining-entry review: The August 26, 1927 Daily Worker, page 2, top-center article "I.L.D. Defends Fourteen Miners from Cheswick," with an Oakmont August 25 dateline, reports a seven-hour hearing and release on furnished bail, individually naming Steve Kurepa with $3,000 bail. The full original page was visually checked. The article separately distinguishes other defendants still held in default of bail. Initial bail release is supported in August 1927, but the exact departure day is not secure across the hearing chronology. August 1 is only the month-precision storage placeholder; it does not assert release before his August 22 arrest. Later rearrest remains separate and unresolved; no exact duration is inferred.
