Biography
Joe Yeary was named in the March 14, 1932 Daily Worker appeal for the imprisoned Kentucky National Miners Union strike cohort. The report explicitly says the later group, including Mason, Yeary, Roberts and Johnson, had been sent to Pineville or Middlesboro after the January 4 headquarters arrests and was among nineteen prisoners still confined in the district. It describes a labor-defense campaign against their prosecution and poor jail conditions. The source does not assign this individual a particular admission day, distinguish Pineville from Middlesboro, or establish physical discharge or a complete term. The announced May 26 trial was still in the future. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n062-NY-mar-14-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The March 11 dispatch explicitly says Judge Jones released him the previous day, March 10, 1932 on $1,000 bond, reduced from $5,000. This release applies to Yeary, not to Chandler, Johnson or Roberts. It does not establish a completed sentence. Daily Worker, March 12, 1932, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n061-NY-mar-12-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The March 11 Knoxville dispatch printed March 12, 1932 says Judge Jones released Yeary the previous day under $1,000 bond after earlier setting $5,000. The newspaper alleges officials sought incriminating information against strike leaders in exchange. The report distinguishes his actual release from the continued Middlesboro confinement of Chandler, Johnson, Roberts, Moore and Hurst. It supplies March 10 as the reported release day, without establishing total detention. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n061-NY-mar-12-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
