Ben Boots

Ben Boots was a Young Communist League member raised in Chicago by his mother, Regina Boots, who worked as a tailor. Her letter in the November 3, 1933 Daily Worker describes his move to Los Angeles, employment and dismissal after his political membership became known. He was jailed for displaying Mooney-defense placards during the Olympic Games campaign. A nine-month sentence was reduced to six months through International Labor Defense attorney Leo Gallagher. The editors state that he completed those six months and had been released since his mother wrote. A separate San Diego eviction-defense prosecution, incurred while on bail, produced a two-year sentence reduced to one year. The paper does not establish that the additional year was actually served or give exact endpoints for either case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n264-nov-03-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4

Daily Worker, May 24, 1935: Page 4’s San Diego worker correspondence recalls his one-year road-camp sentence for turning water back on at unemployed families’ homes, while other participating young workers received lesser terms. The issue gives neither an exact date nor completed service. It adds conduct and punishment context to his existing San Diego relief/eviction-defense record, without identifying him as Ben Schapiro or creating an unproven second San Diego episode. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n124-NAT-may-24-1935-DW-Q.pdf

Revolt, October 1932, pages 5-6, individually names the six August 14 Los Angeles Olympic Stadium demonstrators for Tom Mooney's freedom and reports their September 1 sentences of nine months in Los Angeles county jail for disturbing the peace and a public meeting. This is the original imposed term, not nine months of proven service; subsequent appeal and release evidence remains preserved. The roster prints Ben Boots. It does not itself establish that this name and the separate Ben Schapiro record are the same person. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/student-outlook/v01n01-oct-1932-revolt.pdf