Biography
E. L. Montgomery was from St. Maries, Idaho. E. L. Montgomery received a one- to ten-year prison sentence.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as MONTGOMERY , E. L., reports: Arrested St. Maries , Idaho, March 16 , 1918 , criminal syndicalism . Sentenced 1 to 10 years Boise state penitentiary . Case on 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=16