Biography
C. W. Davis was secretary of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union in Seattle, Washington. He was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and a $30,000 fine, and served his time in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name DAVIS , C. W., 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, $10,000 bond. 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=9
The March1922 official report lists C. W. Davis in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, etc. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 10 years, Leavenworth; fined $30,000.. 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. [PDF6]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 6.
