Biography
H. Klabo was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence" among people convicted and jailed under World War I–era free-speech statutes — chiefly the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, draft-obstruction charges, or wartime state and local laws. Per that record, on June 1918 in Kalispell, Montana, he was sentenced: 3 months for distributing leaflets about the Tulsa outrage. The NCLB — the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union — compiled these cases from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 as a public record of the wartime suppression of free speech, a free press, and peaceful assembly.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name KLABO , H., reports: Arrested and held at Kalispell , Mont. , violation of city ordinance in distributing pamphlets . Sentenced to 3 months . Case appealed . 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=13
