J. B. Childs

J. B. Childs, from Los Angeles, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from July 12, 1923, until his term expired. Four months into his term at San Quentin, on November 16, Childs was beaten by a guard so severely that his head required four stitches; both his arms were "discolored, " and one of them bore a "deep cut." To protest the guard's brutality toward Childs, seventy-one IWW prisoners launched a work strike. They were all subsequently put "in solitary confinement on bread and water."