Biography
Arthur Mini was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal syndicalism after the California agricultural strikes. In the summer of 1934, after leading the great California agricultural strikes, the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union was rounded up and eighteen were tried at Sacramento under the state's criminal-syndicalism law — the largest such prosecution of the decade, with defendants facing six to eighty-four years. Eight were convicted in 1935; the convictions were reversed on appeal in 1937.
The complete Sacramento roster on PDF pages 17–18 individually names this defendant among seventeen indicted for criminal syndicalism during the 1934 strike crackdown. Printed variants include Lorent Norman, W. H. Huffine and Harry J. Collentz. The threatened six-to-eighty-four-year range is exposure, not an imposed sentence or actual service. This corroborates the existing Sacramento prosecution; no new arrest, personal prison admission, release day or verdict is inferred from the roster.
