Biography
Joseph Leston, a seaman and delegation member, given thirty days, was one of the New York unemployed delegation jailed for the 6 March 1930 demonstration. On 6 March 1930 — International Unemployment Day — the Communist-led Unemployed Councils drew huge crowds into the streets to demand "work or wages." In New York a delegation that tried to present demands at City Hall was arrested on the steps, held incommunicado in the Tombs, denied a jury, convicted of unlawful assembly, and sentenced in April 1930 to three-year terms served on the city's prison islands.
Case
New York City Penitentiary
