Biography
Antonio Solorzano was an organizer of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union. In its October 13, 1934 report on threats against Dorothy Ray and Stanley Hancock, the Daily Worker states that Solorzano had been called to the sheriff's office for an identification visit before release and that on the night of his release eight armed vigilantes beat him and left him for dead. This supports prior custody and physical release in the Imperial Valley organizing context, but the article gives no arrest day, release day, charge, imposed sentence or complete custody duration. Violence and police complicity claims are attributed to the newspaper. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n246-NAT-oct-13-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4.
Pettis Perry's ILD protest letter printed on page 5 says vigilantes led by W. F. Aycock inspected union prisoners at Superstition Mountain on July 23 and scrutinized Solorzano, who was due for release the next day. The letter says he was in fact attacked at home the night after release by eight men, knocked unconscious and thrown onto his children. It describes a ninety-day sentence learned from a Spanish-language newspaper while already confined, after a hearing in which he was asked only whether he spoke English. The abuse and court-process account are attributed ILD allegations. The July 24 release is an actual custody endpoint; the later home assault is not automatically another imprisonment. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n192-aug-11-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
The July 23 Western Worker prints A. Solorzano as a signatory to the eight-prisoner Imperial Valley chain-gang letter redirecting relief and cigarettes to maritime strikers. The common camp and cohort match the existing Imperial Valley organizer. It establishes confinement at reporting, not a new commitment or exact release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1934/v3-n27-31-jul-1934.pdf#page=14
