Biography
Alva A. “Al” Fisher was a Pacific Northwest lumber worker and International Woodworkers of America leader prosecuted for signing a Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavit. His first conviction and five-year sentence were reversed in February 1956. After a second conviction, he entered McNeil Island Penitentiary on January 21, 1959. He remained imprisoned through at least September 1960; the exact release date remains unresolved.
