Biography
Ed Dawe was an IWW member from Marysville. Ed Dawe received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from November 7, 1923, until his term expired.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Ed Dawe, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 38578; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. 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 February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints Ed. Dawe with historical prisoner number 38578. Its continued Walla Walla heading appears to run into California prisoners, while this individual’s existing record documents San Quentin. The printed identifier is transcribed; no transfer to Washington or institution change is inferred from that heading. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
Archie Sinclair’s "Hypocritical California," Industrial Pioneer, December 1923, printed pages 7–8 (PDF pages 9–10), identifies Fred W. Thompson and Ed Dawe as agricultural workers convicted in Marysville under California’s criminal-syndicalism law, with Judge McDaniels presiding. It distinguishes their guilty verdicts from sailor Malcolm Fullerton’s acquittal. Sinclair reports that McDaniels criticized the law and the prosecution witnesses while nevertheless imposing imprisonment; those comments are the contemporary author’s account, not an appellate ruling. No sentencing day, individual term, admission day, release day, or actual custody total is derived from this article.
Industrial Pioneer, December 1923, printed pages 7–8 (PDF pages 9–10).
The Daily Worker political-prisoner Christmas roster of December 17, 1924, lists Ed. Dawe at San Quentin State Prison with historical prisoner number 37578. This establishes a contemporary custody observation, not an admission or release date and not a total duration. Its printed number differs from the existing identifier; the existing identifier is preserved pending reconciliation.
