Biography
John E. Hester was a Lowndale labor activist beaten and arrested when the Los Angeles red squad attacked a workers delegation at the Welfare Bureau. The June 28 report says a jury in Judge Crum’s court found him guilty on two electricity-theft counts and that he received fifty days for contempt after insisting evidence be put on record. The fifty-day term is a sentence rather than measured service; actual arrest is independently explicit. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n154-Nat-jun-28-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
