Biography
Don Sheridan was a plumber and the secretary of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, Local 400, in Spokane, Washington. Don Sheridan was convicted at the mass W W trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to August 3, 1923.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as SHERIDAN , DON, 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 . Bond, $ 10,000 . Leavenworth Federal prison pending appeal . The roster is a contemporary labor-defense account. Its indictment, bail and imposed-term information is kept distinct from actual admission/release and complete time served; no missing gate date is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=19
The March1922 official report lists Don Sheridan in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Seditious conspiracy. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 10 years at Leavenworth.. 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. [PDF17]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 17.
