Biography
Joseph Pacheco was secretary of the New Bedford branch of the International Labor Defense, a textile-strike committee member and picket captain. The November 15, 1929 Daily Worker interviewed him after his release the previous day from ten months in military prison. He described arrest in Boston after his strike arrests brought his former army service to the authorities’ attention, a court-martial, and confinement virtually incommunicado at Fort Slocum. He was nineteen. He reported poor food, bread-and-water punishment, solitary confinement and brutality. His fellow textile organizer John Porter remained at Leavenworth. Ten months is a reported period actually served, not an inferred exact number of days or a back-calculated admission date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n216-NY-nov-15-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
