Biography
W. H. Lewis was a miner and secretary of the Metal Mine Workers Indus- trial Union, Local 800, in Miami, Arizona. W. H. Lewis was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000. He served in the Cook County Jail and Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 1917 to March 1918, from September 1918 to June 1920 and from April 1921 to December 22, 1923.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as LEWIS , W. H., 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. The roster is a contemporary labor-defense account. Its indictment, bail and imposed-term information is kept distinct from actual admission/release and complete time served; no missing gate date is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=14
The March1922 official report lists W. H. Lewis in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act. a sentence of Aug 30, 1918, 5 years, Leavenworth Penitentiary; fine, $20,000.. 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.
