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Steve Stevenson was imprisoned for violating an injunction during a New York cafeteria strike. The Daily Worker of December 2, 1930 reports that he and Harry Cornelius had just been released after actually serving a year and a half in prison.
Steve Stevenson was imprisoned for violating an injunction during a New York cafeteria strike. The Daily Worker of December 2, 1930 reports that he and Harry Cornelius had just been released after actually serving a year and a half in prison. The contemporary report states that he had actually served a year and a half before release; neither exact endpoint nor prison is named.
The August 16, 1930 Daily Worker, page 1, reports that an authorized visitor was refused access to Steve Stevenson at Welfare Island prison the previous day. It identifies Stevenson as a food worker prosecuted for an alleged assault during the last cafeteria strike and characterizes the prosecution as a frame-up. This earlier report supplies a contemporary place of confinement and visitor-denial account. The December report already cited here describes imprisonment for violating an injunction; the differing descriptions remain attributed, without determining whether both accounts concern precisely the same prosecution. Welfare Island alone does not identify a unique penitentiary or workhouse, and no institution identifier is assigned. This report adds no admission or release endpoint and does not replace the separately reported year and a half of actual service.
