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Leon Blum

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:New York
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Leon Blum was secretary of the Laundry Workers Industrial Union in the Bronx, imprisoned at Great Meadow Prison in Comstock, New York around 1934 for his union activity. Snatched back into custody on an old parole after charges against him were dropped, he served roughly a three-year term and reported the denial of labor literature to prisoners. (Not the French politician of the same name.)

Case

Great Meadow Correctional Facility
Charges: Parole violation (re-jailed
Sentence: About three years at Great Meadow Prison, Comstock. Charges as recorded: Parole violation (re-jailed over laundry-workers union activity)
Convicted: Imprisoned, c. 1934
Institution State: New York