Biography
Alfo Canales, reported as Adolfe Canales, was a striking Jackson, California miner arrested with James Workman on February 17, 1935. Police jailed both men after claiming to find clubs in their car. Canales was released on bail and later sentenced to one to five years at San Quentin. He remained on bail while appealing.
Mrs. James Workman’s signed account names Adolfe Canales with her husband in the February 17, 1935 Jackson arrest. She describes their continued detention after $500 bail was set February 19 and their later actual release when the bonds were raised. Canales’s one-to-five-year San Quentin sentence was followed by $1,000 appeal bail; this account says he was out on that bond and does not prove actual San Quentin admission. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19350906.pdf#page=4
The July 13, 1936 Western Worker reports that A. Canales’s felony in the Amador miners’ concealed-weapon case was reduced to a misdemeanor, with three and one-half additional months to serve in Amador County Jail. Its anticipated end-of-July release was prospective. The additional term does not establish actual completed service or prove that his earlier San Quentin sentence was physically served.
