Biography
Milka Sablich, known as "Flaming Milka," was a young picket leader during the 1927 Colorado coal strike. She was jailed more than once and refused conditional freedom requiring her to abandon strike activity. She later obtained release on bond and toured to raise support for the miners.
1920s custody review: The Daily Worker, December 7, 1927, page 1, carries a December 6 Denver dispatch reporting her still in jail. The New Leader, December 31, page 3, records her December 27 visit in New York and describes her eventual release on bond. These reports support December 1927 release at month precision, not a specific day. The interview says the second detention lasted about five weeks; that approximation and a separate short stay do not support the former exact 38-day total. Arrest and initial confinement remain year-only, and multiple stays are not treated as uninterrupted custody. Existing photograph retained.
In a first-person interview printed by the Daily Worker on December 29, 1927, Sablich identified trespassing as the charge behind her detention in Trinidad jail during the Colorado coal strike. She said bail was initially refused and that she rejected a later offer of freedom conditioned on going home and ceasing her organizing. The account places her in jail during the Columbine killings and subsequently in New York raising strike relief. It supplies no exact admission day, discharge day or complete custody total. Contemporary interview, printed page 5.
