Joe Varela

Joe Varela was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison during the era of California's criminal-syndicalism prosecutions, which sent more than a hundred IWW members and labor radicals to San Quentin and Folsom on one-to-fourteen-year terms. He appears on the International Labor Defense's rosters of American class-war prisoners in Labor Defender (1926-27) with inmate number 38133; like most of the rank-and-file labor prisoners of the period, little else about his case entered the historical record. Serving four years for organizing workers into the IWW, by his own account in the magazine.