Biography
Harry Donlin was pictured among the prisoners supported by the International Labor Defense in the January 1936 Labor Defender, printed page 19 (PDF page 20). The individually named caption states that he was serving a five-year sentence at San Quentin. The reproduced portrait bears a solidarity inscription signed Harry Donlin and dated July 27, 1935. The source does not specify his charge, arrest date, admission date, release or actual time served. Although the issue also discusses imprisoned Modesto maritime unionists, it does not individually identify Donlin as one of those defendants; that connection is not assumed.
McCann describes Donlin as a longshore strike-gang leader imprisoned at San Quentin following the San Francisco general strike, then under thirty. This adds political context to the existing individually captioned prisoner; it does not independently establish his exact charge, admission or discharge. Labor Defender, December 1936, original PDF page 16. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1936/v12-%5B10%5Dn11-dec-1936-orig-LD.pdf#page=16
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 258. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
The paper prints a San Quentin letter under the spelling Harry Donlan, describing a parole hearing scheduled for March 21 and his request to postpone it thirty days so supporting letters could be prepared. His union affiliation, prison and labor-defense context support the connection to the already captioned Harry Donlin. The request is not a parole grant or an actual release. He asked for visitors and correspondence and said the prison did not receive the Voice or other helpful labor publications. No completed additional thirty-day duration is inferred.
