Biography
Ted Fraser was a meat cutter from Seattle, Washington. Ted Fraser was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $30,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to July 1918 and from September 1918 to May 14, 1922.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster, under the printed name FRASER, TED, reports: Federal . Indicted Chicago , Sept. 28 , 1917. Conspiracy to violate Sections 6 , 19 and 37 and Section 4 of Espionage Act. Convicted 5 year sentence . Bail $ 5,000 . Leavenworth Federal prison . This is the contemporary labor organization’s account. Indictment, bail and imposed sentence are distinguished from physical admission, actual release and complete time served; no missing custody endpoint is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=10
Official roster contradicts the inherited twelve-month total
The Leavenworth inmate roster reproduced on page 6 of the National Archives at Kansas City’s October 2017 newsletter individually lists Ted Fraser. Its “actual time served” column records 3 years, 3 months, 7 days, already more than the inherited twelve-month total formerly stored here. That twelve-month total has therefore been cleared rather than presented as established time served. The roster’s compilation date and a complete set of physical custody endpoints are not supplied in this reproduction, so this entry is preserved as a historical custody observation, not assumed to be a final lifetime total. The separate “minimum term expires” column is not an actual release register; no release day is copied from it. Bail and parole annotations also mean the period must not be assumed continuous.
National Archives newsletter, page 6, reproduced RG 129 inmate roster
Named as a signatory, identified as an ex-political prisoner, of the appeal to attend the March 11 New York meeting for remaining political prisoners. This is a contemporary statement of prior release; no new detention or exact release date is asserted.
The March1922 official report lists Ted Fraser in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, etc. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 5 years Leavenworth; fined $30,000.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF8]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 8.
