Biography
William Duke was one of the individually named signatories of a protest from Washington’s First Precinct station jail after the November 10, 1928 antiwar demonstration demanding freedom for imprisoned soldier John Porter. The November 12 Daily Worker prints the prisoners’ account of crowded, vermin-infested cells, restrictions on communication and their refusal of food. The November 11 bail releases explicitly name three other people; they do not establish William Duke’s release. A November 13 followup reports park-ordinance convictions and $100-or-sixty-day alternatives for six leaders and $50-or-thirty-day alternatives for the others, without individually allocating William Duke’s penalty. Those imposed alternatives are not complete service totals. Exact personal discharge and complete custody remain unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n270-NY-nov-14-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n270-NY-nov-14-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5 Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1928/1928-ny/v05-n268-NY-nov-12-1928-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
