Biography
Karl Jones was an organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress. Karl Jones was one of the leaders arrested in the November 1928 anti-war and "Free John Porter" demonstration in Washington, D.C., when police jailed some two dozen workers and several children. Some defendants received fine-or-jail sentences. Individual custody must be distinguished from the sentence imposed.
The November 12 jail protest attributes crowded, vermin-infested First Precinct cells, restrictions on communication and refusal of food to the prisoners. The November 14 trial account describes Judge Hitts’s local park-ordinance prosecution for using the street between the War Department and White House and distinguishes six leaders’ $100-or-sixty-day alternatives from the others’ $50-or-thirty-day alternatives. Collective refusal-of-bail language conflicts with its individually reported Crouch appeal-bail release; it is not used to infer a new remand for every named defendant or turn nominal terms into actual service. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n270-NY-nov-14-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n270-NY-nov-14-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n268-NY-nov-12-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
At the trial Jones described police trying to separate him from the white prisoners and said their joint protest defeated the attempted segregation. The newspaper quotes his response to an officer’s racist demand that he represented thousands of Black workers. This attributed testimony supplements the initial November 10–11 custody already recorded without erasing its actual bail release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n270-NY-nov-14-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
1920s custody-date review: The contemporary November 11 dispatch names Karl Jones among those arrested and jailed in the previous day's Washington demonstration. Arrest and initial jail entry are recorded as November 10, 1928, not December. The November 11 dispatch explicitly reports this organizer released on bail that day. That release ends the initial detention only, not the prosecution; any later custody remains unverified. A sentence length is not used as a measure of time actually served.
Sources: Daily Worker, November 12, 1928, pages 1 and 3; Daily Worker, November 14, 1928, pages 1 and 5, trial and bail follow-up.
1920s duration reconciliation: The source-supported interval 1928-11-10 through 1928-11-11 computes to 1 elapsed days (end minus start). This is the specific documented custody episode, not necessarily lifetime custody; earlier or later unquantified detention is excluded. November11 contemporary dispatch gives previous-day arrest/jailing and same-day bail.1day valid for initial detention only. The previously blank audit expectation was superseded by this explicit evidence-based calculation; no event dates are changed here.
