Biography
Louis Bradley was one of eight workers arrested at an election meeting in San Francisco’s Jefferson Square on October 28, 1934. The Western Worker named Louis Bradley in its arrest list and reported a vagrancy charge. A subsequent November 6 report said the other defendants from that arrest had been released on bail, without giving individual release days.
Daily Worker, October 31, 1934, page 3: The San Francisco October 30 dispatch names this defendant in the Jefferson Park election-meeting arrests and reports $1,000 cash bail. It prints Alex Naral, Gus Dahlin and Eve Crew for the corresponding Noral, Gustave Dahlin and Eva Crew identities. The account says yesterday, implying October 29, while the existing Western Worker source gives October 28; it also labels six listed companions as five. These conflicts are retained without replacing the existing arrest day or creating a duplicate case.
Sources and evidence limits
Birth and death dates, final case outcome and exact total custody time are not established here. No precise bail-release date is entered.
Historical claims are attributed to the contemporary newspaper. No present-day custody status, demographic classification or precise date is inferred.
Shafter and Bakersfield dispatches dated June 4 and June 3 report Bradley’s arrest on Monday, June 1, 1936 while organizing potato diggers, his initial incommunicado confinement, transfer to the Bakersfield county jail, and $2,500 bail. He rejected a proposed suspended sentence conditioned on a guilty plea, declared his innocence and demanded a jury trial. June 8 was a tentative future trial date. This is distinct from his 1934 San Francisco election-meeting arrest; neither the proposed sentence nor the future trial establishes conviction or release.
Individually named among the eight arrested for vagrancy at the October 28 Jefferson Square election meeting. PDF page 5’s November 6 report says defendants other than Boots, Berg and Ensign were out on bail; no individual physical release day supplied.
