Biography
W. D. Allen was one of eight defendants arrested at a relief demonstration in Salt Lake City on August 22, 1935. A September 2 dispatch in the Daily Worker individually names W. D. Allen among those still held in jail under $2,500 bail each. The initial criminal-syndicalism charge had been changed to rioting. The report does not supply an admission date, release date, verdict or sentence.
Sources and evidence limits
Daily Worker, National Edition, September 3, 1935, original PDF page 3.
The original identifies this Salt Lake defendant by initials only; those initials are retained without expansion or connection to any namesake. The report names all eight defendants as still in jail. August 22 is the demonstration/arrest day, not a separately established jail-booking day. September 2 is a custody snapshot, not admission or release. The International Labor Defense was handling the cases, but individual organizational membership is not inferred.
No unverified birth or death date, demographic category, organizational affiliation, sentence forecast or present custody status is inferred.