Biography
John L. Murphy was a Socialist, a pacifist and an IWW member from Boston, Massachusetts. John L. Murphy was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sentenced to five years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from January 17, 1919, to December 25, 1921, when he agreed to be "a law-abiding citizen" and had his sentence commuted.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as MURPHY , JOHN L., reports: Federal . Indicted Sacramento , Feb. 8 , 1918. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 9 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act. Convicted , 5 -year sentence . Bail , $ 5,000 . Leavenworth Federal prison. 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=16
