Biography
Vladimir Lossieff was a New York editor and Industrial Workers of the World member convicted in the 1918 Chicago IWW mass trial. He received a twenty-year sentence and a $20,000 fine and spent periods in Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary before his release on bond in 1919. Lossieff did not surrender after the appeal failed. He was one of nine defendants identified as bail jumpers in 1921, and later reporting placed him in Soviet Russia by 1925.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster provides a contemporaneous procedural account. The roster reports that he was out on $10,000 bond pending appeal in the Chicago IWW prosecution. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=14
The January 1920 Chicago conspiracy roster names him among the apprehended defendants bailed out in January–February, with the case subsequently postponed. This is distinct from the 1918 federal Espionage Act conviction and its appeal bail; no exact new arrest or release day or final verdict is supplied.
The One Big Union Monthly, May 1920, vol. 2 no. 5, PDF page 60.
The March1922 official report lists Vladimir Losgsieff in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, etc. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 20 years Leavenworth Penitentiary; fine $10,000.. 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. [PDF12]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 12.
