Biography
Abe Ozeranski was a worker from Seattle arrested in Portland’s Plaza Square on November 2, 1930, while selling the Daily Worker. Police initially charged him with vagrancy and subsequently with criminal syndicalism. Held in Multnomah County Jail under $2,500 bail, he was among six defendants released without bail on March 2, 1931, during the campaign to defend Portland’s criminal-syndicalism prisoners.
The Behind the Bars directory on printed page 4 lists this prisoner under Multnomah County Jail, Portland, Oregon, with criminal syndicalism, 1930. This is an attributed historical directory entry: the year and nominal term do not establish an intake day, uninterrupted imprisonment, completed service or physical release. The substantive article on PDF page 10 separately names the Portland criminal-syndicalism and deportation defendants and attributes the raids to informer M. R. Bacon. The threatened ten years is potential exposure, not a sentence already imposed.
