Earl Firey

Earl Firey was an IWW member from Sacramento. Earl Firey received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in Folsom from February 17, 1922, to 1925. (See also the entry for J. A. Casdorf.)

A scholarly history identifies him as 27 years old during his spring 1922 prosecution, which — his February birthday having passed — establishes an 1895 birth year; the prisoner birthday list gives the day as February 26 while a genealogy index gives February 29, 1895, a date that cannot exist (1895 was not a leap year), so the birth date is entered at month precision pending confirmation. A Sacramento IWW carpenter, he was convicted of criminal syndicalism with fellow Wobbly J. A. Casdorf and received a five-year sentence, imprisoned from February 17, 1922 — first at San Quentin under number 37474, later at Folsom as 12640 — and released sometime in 1925; the exact date remains unresolved.

The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Earl Firey, at Folsom California. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5

The contemporary report and People v.LaRue identify the underlying Casdorf–Firey proceeding as California criminal-syndicalism prosecution. The federal Espionage/Sedition label in the structured charge is corrected. The opinion’s late March/early April 1922 trial conflicts with the existing February 17 prison-receipt date; an independent register is needed before changing that physical endpoint. Court source: https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914a839add7b049346f983e Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Glendale_Daily_Press_1922-06-14_%28IA_cgl_001835%29.pdf#page=1