Biography
Louis Weinstock was a Brooklyn house-painter, longtime organizer for the painters union, and treasurer of the Communist Party USA. He was indicted in the Foley Square Second String in June 1951 and convicted with the rest of the second string in January 1953. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison.
Daily Worker, June 17, 1936, page 4: As secretary-treasurer and executive head of Painters District Council No. 9, Weinstock announced a campaign against employers forcing painters to return part of their wages. The article says he had been elected on a rank-and-file ticket the previous February, leading the body for twelve locals in Manhattan, the Bronx and Richmond. It reports the first contractor’s arrest and Weinstock’s efforts to enforce agreements and investigate kickbacks on public-school jobs. The contractor’s arrest is not attributed to Weinstock. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n145-NY-jun-17-1936-DW-Q.pdf
The December 16, 1932 report describes the trade-union unemployment-insurance delegation arriving in Cincinnati November 21 and meeting November 22–23 after exclusion from the AFL convention. It identifies Weinstock as national secretary and describes police jostling the delegation, which left the picket. This documents organizing activity, without an arrest inferred from the confrontation. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n300-NY-dec-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Page 3 identifies him as national secretary of the A. F. of L. Rank and File Trade Union Committee, presenting its report at the San Francisco unemployment-insurance and relief conference and participating as a New York painters’ Local 490 member. Resolutions called for rank-and-file control, social insurance and release of Mooney, Billings and other political prisoners. This is earlier union-organizing context, without a new custody claim. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n243-NAT-oct-10-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Daily Worker, October 10, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
The July 4, 1951 National Guardian individually named Louis Weinstock among the New York Smith Act defendants who had been released on bail after their recent arrests. This pretrial release is distinct from any later sentence service; the report does not establish this person’s exact release day or a measured custody total. National Guardian, July 4, 1951, p. 5.
The released FBI file on Claudia Jones, New York file 100-81752, summarizes the federal Smith Act docket and identifies Louis Weinstock as released on bail on July 20, 1951, during the 1951 bail proceedings. Its April 21, 1952 counsel list identifies Mary M. Kaufman as defense counsel for Louis Weinstock. Source: FBI, released Claudia Jones file, New York 100-81752, sections on bail and sureties, counsel and trial proceedings. The file supplies these individual procedural phases without establishing a new complete custody total.
