Biography
Forrest Edwards was from Louistown, Montana. Forrest Edwards was secretary-treasurer of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, Local 400, in Minneapolis at the time of his arrest. He was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to twenty years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to June 25, 1923.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name EDWARDS, FORREST, reports: Federal . Indicted Chicago , Sept. 28 , 1917. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act. Convicted , 20 year sentence . Bail , $ 10,000 . Leavenworth Federal prison. This is the contemporary labor organization’s account. Indictment, bail and imposed sentence are distinguished from physical admission, actual release and complete time served; no missing custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=9
The March1922 official report lists Forrest Edwards in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, etc. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 20 years, Leavenworth; fined $30,000.. 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. [PDF7]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 7.
