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R. Kuilmen

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#37703
State:California
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

R. Kuilmen was from Eureka. R. Kuilmen received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from April 10, 1923, until his term expired for attending a meeting of the IWW local in Eureka. In June 1924, IWW inmates struck to protest Kuilmen's detention in solitary confinement.

The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as R. Kuilman, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 37703; this is a prison number or mailing designation, not a year or a custody date. This documents confinement at the roster’s reporting time, without establishing an admission, transfer, release, new conviction or complete duration. Existing independently sourced custody chronology remains separate. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n297-NYE-dec-29-1925-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5

Case

San Quentin State Prison
Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Incarcerated: Apr 10, 1923
Released: 1925
Sentence: Four years imposed
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California