Biography
C. J. Smith was an IWW member from Los Angeles. C. J. Smith received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin beginning on July 12, 1923.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as C. J. Smith, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 38131; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints Chas. J. Smith with historical prisoner number 38131. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
The Daily Worker political-prisoner Christmas roster of December 17, 1924, lists J. C. Smith at San Quentin State Prison with historical prisoner number 38131. This establishes a contemporary custody observation, not an admission or release date and not a total duration.
