Biography
Tomash was identified by surname as an organizer of the Unemployed Council of Greater New York. The Daily Worker of December 30, 1931, page 2, reports that Tomash was among workers arrested during the Bayonne unemployed-workers demonstration and was later released. The source supplies no given name, individual charge, conviction, precise arrest/release day or duration in custody. The printed surname was checked on the page image; the incomplete OCR rendering is not used to invent a full name.
The January 2, 1932 issue prints the organizer’s name as M. Tomash and reports him held under $2,500 bail following the Bayonne demonstration. This conflicts with the December 30 report that he had already been released and may reflect earlier dispatch timing. The initial is preserved without expanding a given name, assigning a rearrest, or replacing the earlier release account. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n002-NY-anniversary-ed-jan-02-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6
Harry Bergs August 28, 1931 account names Tomash, secretary of the Unemployed Councils and elected spokesman of the visiting New York City delegation, among those arrested after police clubbed the August 25 Albany relief demonstration. It reports $500 bail and a Friday trial. The Greater New York Unemployed Council role and uncommon printed surname correspond to the existing organizer later identified as M. Tomash in the Bayonne report. The first name is not expanded. This is an earlier Albany arrest, separate from the December Bayonne episode; the Bayonne release report is not assigned to this case. Corroborating regional-role source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n002-NY-anniversary-ed-jan-02-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6 . Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n207-NY-aug-28-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
