King-Ramsay-Conner case

Earl King, Ernest Ramsay, and Frank Conner were three merchant seamen convicted of murdering a ship's officer, George Alberts, aboard a freighter anchored in Alameda, California, on March 22, 1936.

Their trial, appeals, and terms in San Quentin Prison made up a widely reported case that caught the attention of trade unionists, progressives, and radicals.

[2] On March 22, 1936, George Alberts, the Chief Engineer on the SS Point Lobos, was found stabbed to death in his cabin.

The Communist Party of the United States published an editorial in their publication Western Worker that the voice of the jury was that of "shipowners and of the District Attorney Earl Warren", and that "Trade unions and other progressive organizations should pass resolutions condemning the frame-up".

[13] Later, the same paper published that a group of men from the International Labor Defense, visited Earl King and Ernest Ramsey, while they were imprisoned in San Quentin.