Biography
Elmer Lockner was Milwaukee county secretary of the Communist Party. The International Labor Defense called for protests against his arrest with Der Arbeiter editor George Loh after they tore a swastika from its staff during a Milwaukee German Day celebration. This report describes an inciting-to-riot accusation and prospective severe punishment, not an accomplished prison sentence. The same cohort is individually identified in Loh’s existing account; Lockner is not identified with Chicago organizer Karl Lockner. Daily Worker, August 11, 1936, page 4. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n192-NY-aug-11-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=4
The Daily Worker of July 28, 1936, page 6, in a Milwaukee July 27 dispatch, reports that Loh and Lockner were beaten and arrested at the German Day rally on Sunday, July 26. The August 5 issue, page 8, further reports $300 bail each and unlawful assemblage and riot charges; it identifies Loh as thirty years old and quotes a police threat against his anti-Nazi speech. These are the same Washington Park arrests already recorded, not an additional case. Sources: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n180-NY-jul-28-1936-DW-Q.pdf and https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n187-NY-aug-05-1936-DW-Q.pdf
