Biography
Page 2’s August 21 San Diego dispatch reports Angus Drysdale arrested in the Workers Book Shop with copies of M. J. Olgin’s Why Communism. At his criminal-syndicalism hearing Judge Daney Jr. read the pamphlet while Red Squad head A. E. Jansen testified. ILD attorney Wilmer Breeden defended him; the judge dismissed the case, while the prosecutor kept the pamphlets to read. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n201-aug-22-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 491. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
The July 30 San Diego dispatch in the July 31, 1934 Daily Worker prints the librarian’s name as Angus Dryesdale and reports his arrest that day during a Red Squad raid on the Workers’ and Students’ Book Shop in the Social Problems Forum building, 852 Eighth Avenue. It says he was beaten in jail, charged with criminal syndicalism and was out on $1,000 bail supplied by the International Labor Defense by the time of the report. The matching San Diego bookshop prosecution is the existing case whose later August 21 hearing report records dismissal; the July report adds its arrest day without dating the later hearing or dismissal to July.
No separate physical jail-admission or bail-release day, imposed sentence or actual custody total is established. The source spelling is retained here without renaming the profile.
