Biography
C. W. Anderson was the secretary-treasurer of the Agricultural Workers Indus- trial Union, Local 450, in St. Paul, Minnesota. C. W. Anderson was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Wichita and was sentenced to nine years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary. TheDepartment of Justice described Anderson as " one of the leading officials and workers of the I.W.W. in the Middle West."
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name ANDERSON, C. W., reports: Federal . Indicted Wichita , March 14, 1918. Conspiracy. Convicted Dec. 1919. 9 year sentence . Leavenworth Federal prison. 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 identifies Anderson among the Wichita defendants who endured roughly two years of pretrial jail before the December 1919 verdict and transport to Leavenworth the following day. The nine-year judgment is not a measured completed term.
Ahmed White, Under the Iron Heel (University of California Press, 2022), physical PDF pages [169, 170] (printed page = physical minus 11); source193 SHA256 7c24fb0ba336fcbf379fb9720f70dcdbf754d796a50dee77b39e38e0f9bd2868.
The March1922 official report lists C. W. Anderson in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, etc. a sentence of December 18, 1919, 9 years Leavenworth, and to pay costs.. 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. [PDF3]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 3.
