Biography
John Buksa was arrested on a Wheeling, West Virginia street car for distributing the program of the Workers (Communist) Party, and was tried and found guilty under West Virginia's "Red Flag" law — a conviction for nothing more than handing out political literature. The International Labor Defense took up his appeal, reporting the case in the first issue of Labor Defender (January 1926).
The April29,1926 Daily Worker reports J. Buksa already confined for three months in the Ohio County Jail at Wheeling for distributing the Workers Party program on a streetcar. This is elapsed detention as of the report, not a three-month sentence or proof of an exact January admission or final release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n092-NY-apr-29-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
