Sam Gonshak

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

Sam Gonshak was a New York Unemployed Council organizer sentenced to two years in the Welfare Island workhouse in 1933 on a "disorderly conduct" charge for leading two hundred jobless workers to a Home Relief Bureau.

Case

Welfare Island
Charges: Charged with disorderly conduct.
Incarcerated: 1933
Released: 1935
Sentence: Two years in the Welfare Island workhouse. Charges as recorded: Charged with disorderly conduct for leading a relief demonstration in New York.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: New York

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