Biography
Jose Artiste was detained in Los Angeles in 1929 after police intercepted him on his way to speak at a November 7 commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution. A contemporary December 1 dispatch reports that he remained held for deportation, while the other seized speaker, John Owen, had been released. The account describes a multi-week political-speech-related detention, but does not establish a final discharge, complete time served or independently dated physical admission.
Contemporary detention report and limits
Jose Artiste was detained in Los Angeles in 1929 after police intercepted him on his way to speak at a November 7 commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution. A contemporary December 1 dispatch reports that he remained held for deportation, while the other seized speaker, John Owen, had been released. The account describes a multi-week political-speech-related detention, but does not establish a final discharge, complete time served or independently dated physical admission.
The December 2, 1929 Daily Worker, original page 2, describes the planned Trinity Auditorium meeting and says the two speakers were arrested on their way there. Its heading prints “Ariste,” while the report twice prints “Artiste” and once gives “Jose Artiste.” Those spellings occur in the same short account of the same individual detention, not in separate cases. The body spelling is used for the display name; no other personal identity is claimed.
The report says Artiste was still held for deportation in its December 1 dispatch. This is actual continued historical detention, not merely a deportation order or a nominal sentence. No formal criminal charge, guilty verdict, sentence, exact physical intake, final release, birth/death date, demographic category, religion or party membership is established. The November 7 reference identifies the commemoration; it is not promoted to an independently recorded physical-admission date. The database does not assert that a person detained in 1929 remains in custody today. His contemporary alleged police kidnapping is attributed to the newspaper, not presented as an adjudicated finding.
