Biography
Jack Carney was a class-war prisoner (No. 59755) writing to the ILD from Welfare Island, New York in 1935.
The needle-trades section places him at Welfare Island and reports a fifteen-month sentence. This supplies an imposed term and labor connection for the existing Welfare Island prisoner; no complete duration or exact admission or release is supplied. Labor Defender, September 1934, original PDF page 18. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n08-sep-1934-orig-LD.pdf#page=18
PDF page 13 prints Carney's prison letter from Welfare Island, number 59755. He describes waking at five, the mess hall, the lock-in gong and the monotony of confinement, and the encouragement from ILD letters. This is direct testimony of actual custody, not a new conviction or complete measured term. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf
Labor Defender, January 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
A first-person Labor Defender prison letter is signed Jack Carney, No. 59755, Welfare Island, New York. This contemporary letter supplies the historical institutional register number and confinement context without establishing an admission, release day or actual completed duration. Labor Defender, Jan 1935, printed page 17.
