Biography
Tom Connors was an IWW officer. Tom Connors served a prison sentence in San Quentin from June 2, 1925, to Februaiy 1927. Connors was secretary of the IWW General Defense Committee in California. During his criminal syndicalism trial in Maryville, a prospective juror obtained a copy of literature printed by the General Defense Committee. The state of California dropped the criminal syndicalism charge against Connors and tried him for "corruptly attempting to influence a juror." Connors went through three trials on this charge. The first trial resulted in a hung jury; the second resulted in a conviction that was reversed by an appellate court. At the third trial Connors was found guilty and sentenced to three years of imprisonment.
The International Labor Defense holiday roster in the December 29, 1925 Daily Worker lists this prisoner, printed as Tom Connors, at San Quentin California. Its printed identifier is 40950; 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
The July 24 account identifies Busick as the judge and a prosecution witness in Connors’s juror-influence case. This is detail within the existing San Quentin prosecution, not the separate Colorado Thomas Connors case or another conviction. The five-year reference in the June 30 issue is nominal and conflicts with the independently documented three-year third-trial punishment; it is not treated as actual service. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1926/1926-ny/v03-n144-NY-jun-30-1926-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n118-NY-jul-24-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=6
The May 1927 Labor Defender lists actual release from San Quentin on March 8, 1927, whereas the existing independently sourced account places release in February. These dates remain a recorded source discrepancy pending an individual discharge record; no extra imprisonment or exact replacement gate is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1927/v02n05-may-1927-LD.pdf#page=11
1920s remaining-entry review: Kohn, pages 159–160, gives February 1927 as the custody endpoint and distinguishes the juror-influence conviction from the dropped criminal-syndicalism charge. The former June 1928 endpoint was sentence arithmetic. This IWW officer is not the separately listed conscientious objector Thomas Connors.
