Biography
J. W. Holdsclaw was individually named among miners actually confined in Harlan jail in a June 10, 1931 letter published in Labor Defender.
In a letter dated June 10, 1931, W. B. Jones individually listed J. W. Holdsclaw among the men in Harlan jail over the labor conflict and expressly said the listed men were in jail. The roster associates this name with Devils Fork, West Virginia. The figures alongside the names describe family size, not custody duration. This record preserves the printed name without expanding initials or inferring arrest, admission, release, sentence, birth date, or complete time served.
