Biography
Vito Marcantonio was arrested during the unemployed workers’ demonstration at Madison Square Park, New York, on Saturday, February 15, 1936. The Daily Worker, February 18, 1936, page 1–3, 8 reports police detention of demonstration leaders under the description “protective custody.” Marcantonio was a U.S. representative who addressed the demonstration; the paper and readers’ eyewitness letters describe him being beaten and taken away in a patrol wagon. No final charge, verdict, exact physical release day or actual served duration is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n042-NY-feb-18-1936-DW-Q.pdf
The February 22, 1936 Socialist Call individually identifies Congressman Vito Marcantonio and David Lasser among demonstrators taken to a police station and held for a few hours after the previous Saturday’s Madison Square protest. This supplies explicit police-station detention for Marcantonio’s existing February 15 case. The article’s descriptions of police violence and protective custody are contemporary reporting. Its approximate hours do not establish an exact personal discharge time or a one-day numerical counter. No separate duplicate episode or profile is created.
