Biography
William Haas was a seamen’s-strike prisoner held in Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn. The June 3, 1936 Daily Worker identifies him in its account of defense efforts for maritime strikers in New York and New Jersey. The report establishes actual jail confinement, but supplies no individual charge, sentence, admission date, release or complete custody length. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n133-NY-jun-03-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=4