Biography
Francis Von Haessler was a Communist organizer in San Diego. A 1934 memorial in the Western Worker described his arrest during a 1932 demonstration at the Welfare Office and his work organizing unemployed residents. The account reported his death after a prolonged illness following an automobile accident.
Sources and evidence limits
Exact birth, death, arrest and release days and the duration of jail custody are not supplied; the November 2 dispatch date is not substituted for death.
Historical claims are attributed to the contemporary newspaper. No present-day custody status, demographic classification or precise date is inferred.
The San Diego memorial recalls unemployed organizing, the first local hunger march and arrest during a Welfare Office protest. The damaged year/death-day readings are not entered as exact dates. Prolonged illness followed a motor accident and is not attributed to imprisonment.
