Biography
Erwin Warren was a Birmingham, Alabama dairy worker and trade unionist. The Daily Worker of April 6, 1936 reported that he and Howard Roberson had been sentenced to the Alabama chain gang for union activity among dairy workers. The Prisoners Relief column described regular relief being sent to the men and their families and said that, in addition to their regular sentences, each had to work off $37.50 in court costs at seventy-five cents a day. The account establishes reported chain-gang confinement and its labor-organizing connection, but does not state the regular sentence length, precise statutory charge, custody endpoints or complete actual duration.
Erwin Warren was a Birmingham, Alabama dairy worker and trade unionist. The Daily Worker of April 6, 1936 reported that he and Howard Roberson had been sentenced to the Alabama chain gang for union activity among dairy workers. The Prisoners Relief column described regular relief being sent to the men and their families and said that, in addition to their regular sentences, each had to work off $37.50 in court costs at seventy-five cents a day. The account establishes reported chain-gang confinement and its labor-organizing connection, but does not state the regular sentence length, precise statutory charge, custody endpoints or complete actual duration.
The column appeals for contributions to reduce the additional confinement imposed through court costs. Its headline, payment rate and costs are not treated as a measured term already served. No exact admission, release or service total is inferred.
Daily Worker, April 6, 1936, page 6, Prisoners Relief column.
