Biography
Anthony Bimba was a labor speaker arrested after a Brockton speech criticizing Lithuanian clergy and religious authority.
A. Bimba was a labor speaker actually arrested after a Brockton speech criticizing the Lithuanian clergy and religious authority. The February 13, 1926 Daily Worker says an initial sedition allegation was changed to blasphemy and trial postponed to February 24. It describes a protest meeting at which he spoke and an International Labor Defense campaign. The statutory $300 fine or one-year term was possible punishment, not an imposed or completed sentence. Precise physical custody endpoints are unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n028-NY-feb-13-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
The June 25 column calls the Brockton defendant Anthony Bimba and discusses the sedition and blasphemy prosecution. Its characterization of the verdict is contemporary commentary, not an independently fixed day, completed one-year service or another arrest. A June 22 signed byline also uses Anthony Bimba. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n137-NY-jun-22-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n140-NY-jun-25-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
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The same-day Associated Press dispatch reports the sedition sentence, suspended jail term, and actual release on bond on March 2, 1926. It does not establish completed jail service.
