Biography
A. E. Anderson was given a four-year prison sentence for giving testimony in court on behalf of a fellow member of the IWW and served in San Quentin from September 20, 1923, to 1926. (See also the entry for J. A. Casdorf.)
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as A. E. Anderson, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 38376; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
Date review: Arrested in 1922 after testifying in the Casdorf-Firey trial. The sources place the witness arrests in spring, without an individual exact day; year precision is used. This was a California criminal-syndicalism prosecution, not a federal Espionage Act case. Glendale Daily Press, June 14, 1922, page 1; People v. La Rue, 62 Cal.App. 276 (1923).
The recorded 1925 release conflicts with the biography, which says 1926. This remains unresolved pending a prison or parole record.
The December 17, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner subscription roster individually lists A. E. Anderson at San Quentin with historical prisoner number 38376. The original printed name and row alignment were checked. This is an institutional identifier, not a federal BOP number. No custody endpoints or duration are inferred.
Daily Worker, December17,1924, original page5 political-prisoner roster.
A June 3 signed letter locates this IWW prisoner at San Quentin and acknowledges birthday support. This documents the source’s contemporary custody context without establishing a new admission, precise release or completed-service total.
