Biography
Anthony Panchelly was a Pacific Coast Marine Firemen’s Union member imprisoned with Edward Woodworth following the 1937 maritime strike in Hudson County, New Jersey. A Seattle district council resolution reports conviction for assaulting and robbing a strikebreaker, continued state imprisonment and rejection of their appeal by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The union attributed the prosecution to strike participation. The bound edge obscures the maximum term; no precise custody endpoints are printed. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19381222.pdf#page=3
Voice of the Federation, July 6, 1940, page 6, names Donald R. Brown, Edward Woodworth and Anthony Panchelly as Marine Firemen convicted during the 1937 eastern maritime strike. It describes assault charges and fifteen-year terms for robbery, alleges no evidence that they possessed stolen money when seized, and reports three and a half years already spent in the penitentiary. That is an approximate interim service report, not completed custody or a calculated release date. A New Jersey parole-board appearance was expected that month; NMU and MFOW support and promised shipping rights were conditional on release. No parole grant is reported. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19400706.pdf
Voice of the Federation, July 6, 1940; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Page4 reports the three Hoboken maritime-strike defendants serving fourteen-year terms in NewJerseyStatePenitentiary after assault-and-battery and robbery convictions. It describes incommunicado detention and an investigators’ finding of denied rights. Panchelly’s two-week hospitalization and barred lawyer visit are individually reported, not assigned to the other two. The fourteen-year description is nominal sentence language, not actual completed custody.
Page4 reports the NewJerseySupremeCourt denied the three Hoboken maritime-strike defendants’ appeal that week. It describes fourteen-year robbery,assault and battery terms and the ILD considering further action. Appeal denial is not an added fourteen years, completed actual service or final physical discharge.
