Biography
Robert Roberts was a National Miners Union leader court-martialed during the 1933 Gallup coal strike. Carl Geiser’s account names him, George Kaplan and Herbert Benjamin as the three sentenced organizers. Roberts received six months at Santa Fe. The three refused release conditioned on leaving New Mexico for a year; miners continued their strike until unconditional release was granted. No personal arrest or release day or completed six-month service is established. No family link to Martha Roberts or identity link to another Roberts is assumed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n02-feb-1934-lab-def.pdf#page=14
Page 4 prints Charles Guynn’s retrospective account of the 1933 Gallup strike: Bob Roberts, Herbert Benjamin and George Kaplan were arrested by the National Guard and tried by Guard officers. This account gives one year for Roberts and Benjamin and six months for Kaplan. The Roberts term conflicts with the existing six-month report and is retained as a source discrepancy, not silently substituted or treated as time actually served. Guynn says miners refused to resume work until all prisoners were freed; individual dates and completed totals are unreported. The described stockade and martial-law conditions concern the 1933 strike, not an additional 1935 case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n113-NAT-may-11-1935-DW-Q.pdf
