Biography
C. H. Rice was a lumberjack from Owenton, Kentucky. C. H. Rice was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from January 1918 to April 1918 and from September 1918 until his parole on July 21, 1922.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as RICE, C. H., reports: Federal . Indicted Chicago , Sept. 28 , 1917. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act. Convicted , 10 -year sentence . Bail , $ 10,000 . Leavenworth Federal prison. The roster is a contemporary labor-defense account. Its indictment, bail and imposed-term information is kept distinct from actual admission/release and complete time served; no missing gate date is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=18
1920s custody-date review: Kohn distinguishes an earlier jail interval ending in April 1918 from the later penitentiary term. These intervals are recorded separately at month precision where exact days are not supplied; the gap is not counted as imprisonment.
Source: Stephen M. Kohn, American Political Prisoners, page 127.
The March1922 official report lists C. H. Rice in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Seditious conspiracy. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 10 years at Leavenworth.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF16]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 16.
