Biography
Bert Banker was from St. Maries, Idaho. Bert Banker received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name BANKER , BERT, reports: State . Indicted St. Maries , Idaho, May , 1918 . Convicted on criminal syndicalism . Sentenced June 4, 1918 , to 1-10 years . Confined Boise state penitentiary . Appeal pending . This is the contemporary labor organization’s account. Indictment, bail and imposed sentence are distinguished from physical admission, actual release and complete time served; no missing custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=6
White reproduces Banker’s mother’s appeal for pardon because her son had tuberculosis and her offer to send clothes and travel money. This documents family advocacy and reported prison illness, not the execution of a pardon or a precise physical-release day.
Ahmed White, Under the Iron Heel (University of California Press, 2022), physical PDF pages [218] (printed page = physical minus 11); source193 SHA256 7c24fb0ba336fcbf379fb9720f70dcdbf754d796a50dee77b39e38e0f9bd2868.
White’s May 1918 St. Maries mass-trial account reports twelve criminal-syndicalism defendants arriving at Idaho State Penitentiary on June 7, 1918. Note 134 individually names Bert Banker among these twelve and cites their inmate records. This fills a missing physical prison-arrival day, distinct from verdict and sentencing, without assuming the start of all earlier jail custody or a complete term served.
Ahmed White, Under the Iron Heel (University of California Press, 2022), physical PDF pages 126, 280; printed page = physical minus 11; source193 SHA256 7c24fb0ba336fcbf379fb9720f70dcdbf754d796a50dee77b39e38e0f9bd2868.