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Fred Bell was arrested on November 25, 1931.
ILD organizer Fred Bell was arrested after opening the hunger-march meeting from a truck at the Blawnox workhouse gates. The paper reports police and machine guns, and identifies truck driver John Patsik as arrested too. This Pennsylvania labor organizer is distinct from the later Texas defendant Fred Bell / Fahim Minkah. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n284-NY-nov-26-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
In his first-person May 1932 Labor Defender article, Pittsburgh International Labor Defense organizer Fred Bell dates his arrest at the Blawnox hunger-march meeting to November 25, 1931. He reports that his trial took place on February 18 and ended in a not-guilty jury verdict, naming Judge McConnell and prosecutor Earl Jackson. This is the same Pennsylvania hunger-march prosecution already recorded here, not the unrelated later Texas defendant Fred Bell. The acquittal does not establish a physical release day, jail admission or complete custody duration.
Source: Fred Bell, We Defend Ourselves!, Labor Defender, May 1932, printed page 91, original PDF page 17.
