Biography
A. A. Larsen, nicknamed Whirlwind, was a Chicago Daily Worker and Sunday Worker subscription organizer who had lived in the United States since the World War and recently applied for citizenship. The Daily Worker of August 5, 1936, page 6, reports immigration officers arrested him July 23 when he answered a post-office notice to collect a package. Officers alleged that selling the papers advocated overthrow of government. The International Labor Defense posted $1,000 bail for his release pending the Labor Department decision and characterized the action as intimidation of other workers. No final deportation decision, exact release day or actual duration is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n187-NY-aug-05-1936-DW-Q.pdf
Page 4 identifies Andrew Larsen, the Whirlwind Daily Worker subscription seller, as arrested Saturday, August 17, 1935, held incommunicado five days at Sheffield station and repeatedly beaten. A physician’s affidavit described head, eye and kidney injuries. He was out on bail by the August 23 dispatch, with a trial announced for the coming Tuesday; no disposition or exact release day is established. The nickname, Chicago newspaper role and surname connect him to A. A. Larsen, but this 1935 police episode is separate from his July 1936 immigration arrest. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n203-NAT-aug-24-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=4
