Biography
Cresensiano Montes, reported as 25 years old and living in Wilmington, was named among defendants in the Los Angeles-area agricultural-strike prosecutions in the June 4, 1936 Western Worker, page 2. Pleaded not guilty and requested a non-jury trial; El Monte justice-court hearing was prospective in the June 1 dispatch. Exact arrest, physical custody endpoints and final outcome unreported. The article reports mass arrests and police violence against the field strike, but does not individually measure this defendant’s confinement. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1936/v5n45-w308%5B208%5D-jun-04-1936.pdf#page=2
