Biography
James Olson was an IWW member from Los Angeles. James Olson received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from December 1921 to February 11, 1926.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as James Olson, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 35718; 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 Olson with historical prisoner number 35718. 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.
