Biography
IWW organizer Homer Wear was arrested in Miami,Oklahoma initially for vagrancy, then convicted of criminal syndicalism and sent to prison. White later reports release on$500 bond, citing a May22,1925 newspaper. That publication day is not treated as his physical discharge date; exact custody boundaries and actual total remain unknown. Ahmed A. White, The Crime of Economic Radicalism, Oregon Law Review85(2006),649; physical PDF pages[90, 91, 105]; SHA256 5dce4fe1865093ab1e1cde780b2604f9f3577c45e05095bb91c4bc99e46fb38c.
White identifies Wear as a forty-seven-year-old cook organizing lead and zinc miners. He reports a mid-June 1923 vagrancy arrest at Quapaw, continued jail custody, an August 7 criminal-syndicalism charge, thirty days held incommunicado and a September conviction carrying six years and a $750 fine. Wear and Arthur Berg remained imprisoned until early 1925 appellate relief, and neither was retried. The Quapaw arrest location differs from the Miami wording in the earlier article and is preserved as an attributed account.
Ahmed White, Under the Iron Heel (University of California Press, 2022), physical PDF pages [182] (printed page = physical minus 11); source193 SHA256 7c24fb0ba336fcbf379fb9720f70dcdbf754d796a50dee77b39e38e0f9bd2868.
