Biography
Francisco Jiminez was a militant member of San Francisco Ship Scalers Union Local 38-100 during its 1935 strike. After an employer-aligned faction attacked union militants with knives and razors at a September 21 union meeting, Vicente Torres fell from a second-story window and died. Authorities arrested Francisco Jiminez in the aftermath and charged him with murder alongside Archie Brown and three other union members. The trial began on December 11, and a jury acquitted the four remaining defendants on December 23, 1935. Attorneys Leo Gallagher and George Andersen defended the union members. A preliminary hearing had dismissed charges against Jiminez, Brown and Julio Canales, but a grand jury subsequently indicted them again.
The October 31, 1935 Voice of the Federation names the four Ship Scalers defendants as Natalio Villi, Francisco Yminez, Julio Canales and Archie Brown and explicitly says all four were held without bail. The matching cohort links the printed Yminez to the existing Jiminez record. A December 9 trial date was then prospective, while the defense sought an earlier date; this interim article does not supersede later individually documented dispositions or establish a release day. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19351031.pdf#page=2
Pages 1, 5 and 6 name the four Ship Scalers Local 38-100 defendants in the murder prosecution after Vicente Torres' death at the September 21 meeting. They describe defense counsel Leo Gallagher challenging a business-dominated jury of nine men and three women, Judge Jacks denying a new working-class panel, and 150 protest telegrams. Maritime unions voted a December 20 half-hour work stoppage, still prospective on publication. The ongoing trial report does not supersede the later December 23 acquittal or establish a separate arrest or exact discharge. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19351219.pdf
Voice of the Federation, December 19, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Pages 1, 3 and 6 report acquittal of the four Ship Scalers defendants and the half-hour December 20 waterfront protest. Archie Brown is individually named conducting his own defense with ILD lawyers George Andersen and Leo Gallagher. The article describes conflicting prosecution testimony and medical evidence about Torres’s death. The issue establishes acquittal by December 27 but does not state its precise day or certify an exact physical discharge day.
Page1’s December24 SanFrancisco report dates the ShipScalers acquittal to yesterday, December23. It says ArchieBrown defended himself, while GeorgeAndersen and LeoGallagher represented the other three; the jury returned its verdict in seven minutes. Its account that Torres fell while avoiding a fight and that employer-aligned witnesses perjured themselves is attributed to the defense newspaper, not independently adjudicated here.
