Biography
George Pesce was a class-war prisoner held at San Quentin (inmate no. 44462), listed on the ILD's roster of American labor prisoners in Labor Defender in 1928. Like most of the rank-and-file labor prisoners of the criminal-syndicalism era, little else about his case entered the historical record.
George B. Pesce was listed among the class-war prisoners on the International Labor Defense's 1930 Winter Relief roster, confined at the San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California.
The October1931 Labor Defender roster lists GeorgeB.Pesco at SanQuentin with a ten-year sentence; the surname appears there as Pesco rather than Pesce.
Tom Mooney’s March 1931 open letter to Warren Billings identifies George Pesce and Gus Madsen as two carpenters among California prisoners for whom he sought continuing solidarity. This supplies an explicit occupation and contemporary defense context without a new custody interval. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n060-NY-mar-10-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
The September 8, 1930 Laisve, page 5, reproduces an International Labor Defense political-prisoner directory. Its row prints Geo. B. Pesce, a term of life, the year 1926 in the sentencing-year column, and confinement or correspondence location San Quentin, California. This is an attributed historical directory entry; printed years and nominal terms are not exact intake dates or measured time served, and mailing boxes do not independently identify a prison. The directory contains stale or conflicting chronology, so this row does not override independently established conviction, death or release facts. Source: https://www.spauda2.org/laisve/archive/1930/1930-09-08-LAISVE.pdf#page=5
