Biography
J. J. McMurphy was given a prison sentence for violating the state's Criminal Syndicalism Act by speaking on behalf of the IWW and having IWW literature in his possession. He began serving time in November 1917.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly roster, printed as MCMURPHY , J. J., reports: Arrested at Burke , Idaho, 1917. Sentenced to 1 year Boise state penitentiary and $ 500 fine . Released Nov. 20, 1918 , without fine . The roster is a contemporary labor-defense account. Its indictment, bail and imposed-term information is kept distinct from actual admission/release and complete time served; no missing gate date is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=15
White describes the 1917 Burke criminal-syndicalism case and actual Idaho imprisonment, with prison record number 2570. His account places imprisonment in October while the existing compilation says November; the conflicting months are retained without selecting a new admission day.
Ahmed White, Under the Iron Heel (University of California Press, 2022), physical PDF pages [109, 125] (printed page = physical minus 11); source193 SHA256 7c24fb0ba336fcbf379fb9720f70dcdbf754d796a50dee77b39e38e0f9bd2868.
