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Ben Lifshitz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:New York
Support
Communism
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Biography

Ben Lifshitz was given thirty days on New York's Welfare Island in 1929 after being seized in a police raid on the Daily Worker office during a demonstration — one of the free-speech arrests the ILD's Labor Defender reported that year.

Case

Arrested: 1929
Sentence: Thirty days on Welfare Island, New York.
Convicted: Yes