Biography
James Martin was an IWW member. James Martin received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from March 1923 until his term expired.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as James Martin, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 37630; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The February 26, 1924 Daily Worker political-prisoner roster individually prints James Martin with historical prisoner number 37636. The entry appears under San Quentin State Prison, California. This is a contemporary institutional identifier, not a federal BOP register number. No admission or release date, individual sentence length, actual duration, organizational membership or present status is inferred.
The March 20, 1924 Daily Worker, page 3, publishes April 5 as the birthday of Jim Martin, individually identified by existing prisoner number 37636. No birth year is supplied, so no complete birthdate or age is invented. This contemporary month-and-day birthday detail is preserved as attributed reporting. Original enlarged print was checked; OCR misreads of the identifiers were rejected.
