Biography
Grover H. Perry was an Industrial Workers of the World organizer and secretary-treasurer of the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union in Salt Lake City. An outspoken opponent of U.S. participation in World War I, he was convicted in the 1918 Chicago IWW mass trial, sentenced to twelve years and fined $20,000. Perry was held in the Chicago House of Corrections and Leavenworth Penitentiary, where he developed pulmonary tuberculosis, before his release on bond in September 1919. He did not surrender after the appeal failed and was one of nine defendants identified in IWW records as having left for Soviet Russia in 1921.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster provides a contemporaneous procedural account. The roster reports that he was out on $10,000 bond pending appeal in the Chicago IWW prosecution. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=17
The March1922 official report lists Grover H. Perry in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violation of the espionage act, ete. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 12 years at Leavenworth; fine $20,000.. 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. [PDF15] The government entry individually records September13,1919 bond release; no later return day or complete actual duration is supplied. [PDF15]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 15.
