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Page 2 names William Bailey, a seaman, among four workers arrested during the July 26 Bremen anti-Nazi demonstration. Their July 29 hearing was postponed until July 31 at West Fifty-Fourth Street Court. Bail was set at $2,500 each; the enlarged original confirms that figure. No individual formal count, bail payment, release or eventual disposition is stated. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n181-NAT-jul-30-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Pages 1–2 report the August 7 West Side Court proceedings: existing felonious-assault charges and a prosecutor’s request for an unlawful-assemblage complaint alleging a plan to board the Bremen and remove the swastika. Attorneys Joseph Tauber and Edward Kuntz protested, and no additional bail was set. The cases were adjourned until August 14, without a verdict or established discharge. The five appearing defendants are distinguished from hospitalized Edward Drolette and separately charged station protesters. Page 4 announces the five as future cruise guests; that announcement alone supplies no release date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n189-NAT-aug-08-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 527. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
Daily Worker, August 8, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
