Biography
John Pancner was from Chicago, Illinois. John Pancner joined the IWW in 1905 and worked as aunion organizer in Nevada, California, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. He 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 September 8, 1917, to May 19, 1919, and from April 30, 1921, to December 23, 1922.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster provides a contemporaneous procedural account. The roster reports that he was out on $10,000 bond pending appeal in the Chicago IWW prosecution. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=17
The book explicitly places Pancner’s imprisonment in the Tonopah Public Service Workers Local 111 campaign. It dates a union-hall raid and threatened lynching to July 11, 1914, and says Pancner shot one attacker in the leg and was convicted of assault with intent to kill. This is a distinct Nevada episode predating the federal Chicago IWW prosecution. No individual imposed term, prison intake, physical discharge or actual duration is supplied.
Fred W. Thompson and Jon Bekken, The IWW: Its First 100 Years, physical PDF pages 114, 121. Source179 SHA256 aa128f62023cae68c84b07606880c2cb665c80266f78854951758922bab40afa.
The March1922 official report lists John Pangner in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violation of the espionage act, etc. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 10 years at Leavenworth and fined $30,000.. 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. [PDF15]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 15.
