Biography
Alex Nicholson was an IWW member from Eureka. Alex Nicholson received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from April 27, 1924, until his term expired.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Alex Nicholson, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 39348; 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
1920s release-date review: The previously recorded 1925 release is unsupported and conflicts with contemporary evidence. A signed San Quentin letter identifies this prisoner as number 39348, and the May 1927 roster still lists him in custody. The release date remains unresolved; a four-year sentence is not used to calculate it. The existing admission date has not been independently re-established by these sources.
Sources: Labor Defender, April 1927, printed page 61, Three I.W.W.s; Labor Defender, May 1927, printed page 79, List of Class War Prisoners. Original pages visually checked. No identifiable photograph established.
The Daily Worker political-prisoner Christmas roster of December 17, 1924, lists Alex Nicholen at San Quentin State Prison with historical prisoner number 39348. This establishes a contemporary custody observation, not an admission or release date and not a total duration.
