Biography
Jacob Dolla was individually named among the labor and political prisoners actually confined at Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh in the February 26, 1924 Daily Worker. The newspaper described the roster as people imprisoned for activities on behalf of workers and solicited newspaper subscriptions for them. The entry does not establish an individual charge, organizational membership, sentence length or physical admission and discharge dates.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926, page 2: J. Louis Engdahl’s editorial specifically identifies Dolla as imprisoned as a result of the 1919 steel strike, strengthening the labor context of his existing Western State Penitentiary record. It does not name a statutory count, verdict, sentence, admission or release date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n131-NY-jun-15-1926-DW-LOC.pdf
The March 1927 Labor Defender describes Dolla as a former class-war prisoner, then free and living in Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania after Lebanon. This confirms historical release by publication, without supplying an exact discharge day or complete time served. Conflicting nominal terms and earlier institutional listings are not converted into new custody endpoints. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1927/v02n03-mar-1927-ORIG-LD.pdf#page=19
Jacob Dolla was individually named among the labor and political prisoners actually confined at Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh in the February 26, 1924 Daily Worker. The newspaper described the roster as people imprisoned for activities on behalf of workers and solicited newspaper subscriptions for them. The entry does not establish an individual charge, organizational membership, sentence length or physical admission and discharge dates. Actually confined at Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh as of the February 26, 1924 roster, historical prisoner number A12891. Individual sentence and custody endpoints unresolved. No measured total or current custody flag inferred.
Daily Worker, February 26, 1924, original political-prisoner roster, printed page 4.
Daily Worker, June 15, 1926; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
This issue identifies Jacob Dolla as a steel-strike militant serving a nominal 15 to 17 years at Eastern Pennsylvania Penitentiary, Philadelphia. Governor Gifford Pinchot’s January 31, 1923 reply to the paper’s January 24 telegram referred its innocence claim to the Attorney General. This earlier Eastern penitentiary report is retained separately from the later Western penitentiary roster; no transfer day or discharge follows from either report.
