Biography
Jess Tanner and his wife were seized by vigilantes at San Jose and forcibly sent to Los Angeles during the 1934 strike crackdown, according to the October Labor Defender. Their four children were placed in a detention home, their cow given to the humane society, and Tanner feared returning home. The forced removal is an extrajudicial seizure, not an established criminal conviction or formal prison admission. The account supplies no exact seizure, end-of-restraint or family-reunification date. The wife’s given name and the children’s names are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n09-oct-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=17
