Biography
John Adams was arrested for speaking at a Communist election meeting and convicted of sedition in Pennsylvania, held on an indeterminate sentence at the Huntingdon industrial school, where he lost a month's time for protesting prison conditions.
Page 1 dates both men’s Chester arrest to October 2, 1931 at an open-air Communist election rally and reports eleven Flynn Sedition Act counts. A January 18 trial was postponed to an unspecified day in the week of March 21 because a federal witness was unavailable. The report explicitly says both were out on $2,000 bail. This establishes bail liberty by February 9, 1932, not continuous confinement through trial or a final disposition.
The prisoner directory prepared for December 1932 and published in the January 1933 Labor Defender records John Adams’s imposed sentence on 1932-04-07. This is a sentencing date, not a prison admission, physical release, or measured period served. Source: Labor Defender, January 1933, printed page 234.
