Biography
The July 3 issue’s retrospective labor-news summary identifies marine worker Walter Stack as jailed and banished from Baltimore. The June 25 reference dates the earlier newspaper headline, not independently the arrest or banishment. No exact admission, discharge or total service is established, and the reported banishment is not assigned an invented exile interval. Daily Worker, July 3, 1934, page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n158-jul-03-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The June 28 report identifies Stack as secretary of the Baltimore Waterfront Unemployed Council and describes a farewell meeting held June 25. Judge Stanton ordered five seamen to leave Maryland within forty-eight hours under a two-year suspended sentence. The report describes their declared plans to organize in other ports. The suspended term is not two years served; no exact arrest, discharge or completed exile interval is inferred. W. Howe, Ted Harris, Mack Guadalupe and Fred Stanley are named in the same order, but their individual physical custody is not established in this article. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n154-jun-28-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Page 3 reports Stack appealing in Seattle Superior Court a six-month vagrancy sentence imposed by Police Court Judge Bell on October 17, 1934. It also expressly recalls an earlier three-month conviction during the maritime strike, making these two Seattle episodes distinct from his previously recorded Baltimore banishment. Bell's reported remarks targeted him as an organizer of trouble. His contemporary Luckenbach strike activity is reported, but neither nominal term is a complete custody total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n302-Nat-dec-19-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary portrait source
The photograph shows Walter Stack speaking into a microphone. Its direct caption identifies him as the seamen’s leader banished from Baltimore by Judge Stanton. The adjacent report identifies him as secretary of the Waterfront Unemployment Council and names the same five-man cohort discussed in his existing Baltimore record. The two-year terms were suspended on condition of leaving Baltimore; they are not two years actually served. The portrait is taken from the original newspaper photograph, with the surrounding text removed and his full head, hair, face and shoulders preserved.
The Baltimore dispatch dated June 24, 1934 says the court passed the five seamen’s sentences on Friday. That Friday was June 22, 1934, so the sentencing day is derived from the report’s explicit weekday and dateline. The two-year terms were suspended on condition that the defendants leave Baltimore; the sentencing day does not establish a jail-admission or release day, completed departure or two years actually served. The unresolved arrest chronology remains separate.
Daily Worker, June 25, 1934, original PDF pages 1–2, Courts Banish 5 Seamen from Baltimore Port.
Daily Worker, December 19, 1934; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
