Biography
John I. Turner was a lumberjack and an organizer and a delegate for the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, from Spokane, Washington. John I. Turner was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to ten years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from December 1917 to June 25, 1923.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as TURNER, JOHN I., reports: Federal . Indicted Chicago , Sept. 28 , 1917. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act. Convicted, 10 year sentence . Bond, $ 10,000 . Leavenworth Federal The roster is a contemporary labor-defense account. Its indictment, bail and imposed-term information is kept distinct from actual admission/release and complete time served; no missing gate date is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=20
The September 1917 International Socialist Review identifies J. I. Turner as the organizer arrested with delegate Louis Miller and three strike or press committee members on vagrancy accusations at Whitefish, Montana. They were actually released after a two-day jury trial; the trial length is not a measured full custody term. The former biography included a sentence explicitly about William E. van Amburgh. That foreign-person sentence and the June 21, 1918 arrest/intake dates derived from it are not retained as Turner evidence. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v18n03-sep-1917-ISR-riaz-ocr.pdf#page=23
The March1922 official report lists John I. Turner in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Seditious conspiracy. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 10 years at Leavenworth and fined $15,000.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF19]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 19.
