Biography
Jim Lechay was arrested on May 27, 1934.
Rose Lechay’s first-person article reports that police arrested her and Jim Lechay on May 27, 1934 after clearing spectators from the Tombs Court in New York. She describes being struck, thrown down and kicked, and Jim being beaten while officers held his arms. Both were held on $100 bail for disorderly conduct after the court refused parole to ILD attorney Tauber. Their trial on June 8 ended in thirty-day suspended sentences; the article documents actual pretrial detention but not an exact release or complete interval. The adjacent native photograph captions the pair from right to left as Rose Lechay and Jim Lechay, then ILD attorneys. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n07-jul-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=12
PDF page 4 prints James Lechay and reports release with Rose after the relief-protest arrest. This adds the given-name variant to the established paired identity without a duplicate or invented date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf
Labor Defender, January 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Rose Lechay’s July 1934 account names Justice Dreyer as the judge at the June 8 trial that ended in thirty-day suspended sentences for her and Jim Lechay. The earlier bail magistrate McGee is a separate judicial role; no additional custody or served term is inferred. Labor Defender, July 1934, PDF page 12.
