Biography
Turner was a Red Builder imprisoned in a New York workhouse for selling the Daily Worker in the subways. PDF page 2, headed May 16 but bound into the May 18, 1931 Daily Worker, names Turner and Stopes among imprisoned workers elected to an honorary defense committee. The source gives no first names, exact arrest dates, statutory charges, individual terms or release dates. This qualified surname-only record preserves the identification limit; no identity with another Turner is asserted.
The WIR picnic notice names Stokes and Turner as Daily Worker sellers sentenced in Bronx courts and announces that they would discuss their experiences in prison at the June 21 event. It prints no first name for Turner and no completed release date; the surname-only identity limitation is retained.
Page 2 supplies the full printed name Clarence Turner, a young seaman, Downtown Unemployed Council and Red Builders member, arrested January 19 for selling the Daily Worker on a Bronx subway train. It reports accusations of insulting remarks about the U.S. government and thrusting newspapers toward passengers. Magistrate Anthony Burck imposed six months on Welfare Island on January 22. This provides the first name and case details for the existing qualified newspaper-seller record; it does not establish actual completion of that term.
Page 3 reports greetings from Stokes and Turner, then serving time on Welfare Island for selling newspapers in subway trains, read at the May 16 Red Builders banquet. This supplies a contemporary continued-custody observation, not proof of service through a later date or an exact completed six-month total.
