Biography
Stanley M. Gue was an Industrial Workers of the World activist and journalist in San Diego. He reported on labor organizing and the Mexican Revolution and participated in the 1912 free speech campaign. An original police arrest card preserved by the Museum of Protest identifies him as Stanley McGregor Gue and records a San Diego arrest for criminal conspiracy on March 21, 1912. Contemporary Solidarity reporting also identifies him among the defendants prosecuted over the street-speaking campaign. His individual verdict and release date have not been established.
Contemporary San Diego prosecution roster
The roster identifies Stanley M. Gue as a journalist and IWW member. Its collective February 7 arrest statement does not override the individually identified March 21, 1912 police booking already recorded here. An earlier detention may warrant separate investigation, but the roster alone is not treated as a proven second confinement or used to replace the exact booking record.
The July 29 dispatch describes proceedings under way since July 13 and a clerk’s reading on July 15, with jury selection completed July 19; a later update on page 2 names six convicted defendants and says the other eight were acquitted. Its generalized descriptions of long confinement and unnamed people held for three or four months are not assigned as this person’s actual duration. The statement of fourteen defendants is accompanied by thirteen printed roster names and a J. W. Wright case caption; no missing fourteenth identity is invented. All original case dates, verdict fields, custody totals and timestamps are preserved. The collective February 7 date remains source-attributed because individual records can disagree.
Solidarity, volume 3 number 33, whole number 137, August 10, 1912, original pages 2–3.
