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Einosuke Yamaguchi

AKA: E. Yamaguchi; Enosuke Yamaguchi; Pauley
Released
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:1930s
State:California
Support
Communism
Einosuke Yamaguchi

Biography

Einosuke Yamaguchi, also recorded as Enosuke Yamaguchi and under the documented alias "Pauley", was a Japanese radical organiser in Los Angeles.

He was arrested on January 3, 1930 at a forum on Brooklyn Avenue in Los Angeles under the authority of California's Criminal Syndicalism Act. The disposition of that charge and his release from it are unresolved.

In March 1930 he was arrested again, with Hakomori and Fukunaga, during a Trade Union Unity League demonstration advocating the organisation of unemployed workers. He was jailed and reportedly fined $500, and was ultimately placed in deportation proceedings.

In August 1932 he was released from the Lincoln Heights Jail for deportation or voluntary departure; contemporary reports show him leaving the jail and travelling east. HE DEPARTED FOR THE SOVIET UNION RATHER THAN JAPAN. The exact day of departure is unresolved.

Whether he was held continuously between the March 1930 jailing and the August 1932 release is not established, so no custody span is recorded and no day counter is computed.

Sources: the Yamazaki study of Japanese-American radicalism; Street Meeting; and the Western Worker of September 1, 1932. A contemporary jail-departure photograph appears in that issue of the Western Worker, with Los Angeles Public Library provenance identified in a later reproduction; it has not been attached to this record.

Cases

Lincoln Heights Jail
Charges: Arrested under the authority of California's Criminal Syndicalism Act at a forum on Brooklyn Avenue, Los Angeles.
Arrested: Jan 3, 1930
Sentence: The disposition of this charge and any release from it are unresolved, so no custody is recorded.
Convicted: Imprisoned, 1932
Institution State: California
Lincoln Heights Jail
Charges: Arrested with Hakomori and Fukunaga during a Trade Union Unity League demonstration advocating the organisation of unemployed workers, Los Angeles.
Arrested: March 1930
Released: August 1932
Sentence: Jailed and reportedly fined $500, then placed in deportation proceedings. Released from the Lincoln Heights Jail in August 1932 for deportation or voluntary departure, and departed for the Soviet Union rather than Japan; the exact day is unresolved. Continuous custody between the March 1930 jailing and the August 1932 release is NOT established, so no incarceration date is entered and no day counter is computed.
Institution State: California