Biography
Joseph Harper was from Winnfield, Louisiana. Joseph Harper was convicted for circulating apamphlet entitled " The Issue of the Day: Financial Slavery, Free Speech " and sentenced to two years in prison. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from January 17, 1919, to September 2, 1920.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name HARPER , JOSEPH, reports: Federal . Indicted Sacramento , Feb. 8 , 1918 . Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 9 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act . Convicted , 2- year sentence . Leavenworth Federal prison . This is the contemporary labor organization’s account. Indictment, bail and imposed sentence are distinguished from physical admission, actual release and complete time served; no missing custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=11
The September defense report lists Jos. Harper among six Sacramento defendants then serving at Leavenworth and expected to be released September 2. It calls their term three years, conflicting with the separately sourced two-year term in this profile. No new physical release day or measured total is inferred.
