Biography
John Metsaranta, printed in Finnish inflected form Metsärannan, was a janitor at the San Francisco Finnish workers hall. A1946 local labor-history recollection places his arrest during repression surrounding the1934 general strike: police took him while he was locking the hall, brought him to a police station and beat him. The account explicitly reports seven days in a cell on allegations of disturbing the peace and assembling on a street corner, while disputing those allegations because he had been seized at the hall. Exact arrest and discharge days are not supplied. Leo Mattson,ed., Neljakymmenta vuotta: Kuvauksia ja muistelmia Amerikan suomalaisen tyovaenliikkeen toimintataipaleelta1906-1946(1946); source SHA256 578848740b9c75b6bd0cca39e531fc8511660bfb595cd97f3858cdae218789df;physical PDF115,printed116.
