Biography
Yetta Hornstein was a Chicago garment-strike picket associated with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. The authorities imprisoned this union activist in 1926 for defying the anti-picketing injunction during the 1924 strike.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926, page 1: The front-page report names this picket among those beginning terms at Cook County Jail under Judge Denis E. Sullivan for violating the injunction during the 1924 garment strike. Individual listed sentence: 20 days and a $350 fine. Sole support of a sick mother. About four hundred fellow union members accompanied the defendants and red carnations were handed out. The article’s relative “today” does not establish an exact physical admission day. This is the already recorded 1926 imprisonment; later release evidence and any conflicting duration reports remain in the existing case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n131-NY-jun-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf
The June 19, 1926 Chicago garment-prisoner account adds personal and prison-life detail. The report describes a dependent sick mother whom Hornstein told she was taking a vacation, to spare her the shock of learning of her imprisonment. The twenty-day nominal term is not converted to a completed interval. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n135-NY-jun-19-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The June 30 report anticipates Hornstein’s Friday release under a twenty-day sentence. This is a forecast, not proof of actual July 2 discharge or completed twenty-day service. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n144-NY-jun-30-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
At the reception for released garment-strike pickets, Hornstein said that union-provided meals supplemented poor jail food and that the strikers improved conditions for fellow prisoners. The report says she had been physically released a few days earlier, without an exact discharge day. Daily Worker, July 15, 1926, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n156-NY-jul-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
1920s remaining-entry review: The Daily Worker, March 21, 1924, page 2, individually lists Yetta Hornstein among the eleven strikers arrested Wednesday, March 19. The June 19, 1926 issue, page 3, identifies her twenty-day confinement and explicitly connects the imprisoned women to the 1924 garment strike. Both complete original pages were visually checked. The arrest is distinct from the later sentence served in 1926; the existing month-level incarceration and release dates are not sharpened by sentence arithmetic.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
