Biography
Dan W. Stevens was president of Minneapolis Painters Local 186, a Spanish-American War veteran and longtime union delegate. The April 23, 1925 profile reports that Judge Bardwell sentenced him to six months for contempt during movie-theater picketing in 1920, and expressly says he actually served three months before release. No ninety-day conversion or calendar endpoints are invented. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-nat/v02b-n087-Chi-apr-23-1925-DW-Q.pdf#page=1