Biography
Juan Olivas signed the Imperial Valley prison-camp letter printed on page 4. Page 4 prints a letter dated July 8 from prisoners at the Superstition Mountain camp in California’s Imperial Valley following the agricultural strike in Brawley. It says they had been jailed for the strike and asked that their prison relief, cigarettes and funds be redirected to the striking maritime workers after hearing of the San Francisco attacks. The report refers collectively to eight prisoners but prints seven signatures; no eighth identity is invented. It establishes actual camp confinement without precise admission, final discharge, sentence or measured duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n172-jul-19-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
The July 23 Western Worker prints Juan Olivas as a signatory to the eight-prisoner Imperial Valley camp letter redirecting relief and cigarettes to maritime strikers. This version contains eight distinct signatures, including F. C. Macias and separate Miguel N. Gutierrez and Mike Gutierrez Jr.. No new exact personal admission, release or completed total is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1934/v3-n27-31-jul-1934.pdf#page=14
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 487. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
