Biography
Warren Beavert was a striking Alaska Juneau Gold Mine worker prosecuted for riot after the June 24, 1935 confrontation between strikers and an armed group escorting strikebreakers. A prosecution witness accused Beavert of striking him in the mouth. Irvin Goodman defended the union members at their joint trial, which began November 12 before Judge George Alexander. The jury acquitted the defendants on December 14, 1935.
Daily Worker, December 24, 1935: Page 5’s captioned group photograph identifies him by surname among the Juneau union defendants recently freed after the riot trial arising from the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company strike. It supplies an identified portrait and corroborates release by December 24, but gives no exact release or verdict day and does not settle the conflicting December 14/15 accounts. The photograph also includes defense lawyers Goodman and Roden; they are not counted as defendants. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n309-NY-dec-24-DW-Q.pdf
Pages 1-2 report acquittal of twenty-four Juneau strike defendants after a five-week riot trial involving about two hundred witnesses. Defense rested December 6, prosecution rebuttal began December 9, and the paper places the verdict at midnight Sunday, differing from December 14 wording in another contemporary report. Three-to-fifteen-year punishment was exposure, not a sentence served. No exact individual jail discharge is inferred. The father of two described being beaten black and blue by an armed group of thirty while alone during the strike. Source: https://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19351219.pdf
Contemporary December 1935 report and limits
The December 3, 1935 Daily Worker (p. 4), in a Juneau report datelined December 2, describes the Alaska Juneau strike-related riot trial of twenty-five workers as entering its third week. It singles out Warren Beavert, Simon Graner, Frank Agoff and Nick Kobak, describes contested prosecution identifications, and says defendants faced three to fifteen years. That was possible exposure while trial was ongoing, not a sentence imposed. The report provides no exact arrest, admission, bail-release or physical release day. The independently established later acquittal remains distinct from any unproved release date.
Source: Daily Worker, national edition, volume 12 number 291, December 3, 1935. Allegations and editorial characterizations are attributed to the paper.
Daily Worker, December 24, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Voice of the Federation, December 19, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Page 1 captions the same Juneau defendant group; the report explicitly dates the riot-trial acquittal to noon December 14, 1935 after twenty hours of deliberation. It describes Judge Alexander, prosecutors Holzheimer and Folta and defense lawyers Irvin Goodman and Henry Roden. The caption says twenty-five while the article says twenty-four; another existing report gives December 15, so these conflicts remain explicit rather than silently replacing established dates. No precise physical discharge day or completed custody interval follows from the verdict.
