Biography
George Hoxie was a Los Angeles labor activist arrested during the May Day demonstration on May 1, 1930. Police charged the eighteen defendants with parading without a permit, battery and distributing handbills. Eight had their charges dropped and five obtained bail, but Hoxie, D. Fradkin, Carl Hummel, Martin Shapiro and John Vilarino remained in jail. Hoxie was also prosecuted with other unemployment demonstrators in the 1930 trials arising from the February 26 and March 6 protests. The International Labor Defense’s attorney Leo Gallagher represented him. The first trial ended with a jury disagreement, and another trial followed in September.
Pages 1 and 5 report the Los Angeles unemployment-demonstration retrial before Judge Wood. Sklar's county-jail letter describes challenges to class/race exclusion in the jury, the judge dispensing with a stenographer and threatening note-takers, and actual dismissal of Sklar and Spector from this separate prosecution. Horiuchi was expressly retained despite the same reported forty-two-year Imperial Valley term; that aggregate characterization does not replace differing documented sentence ranges or become time served. Horiuchi and Kreitzberg obtained self-representation; Kiosz faced a threatened contempt penalty for smiling, not an imposed new term. The remaining seven included Horiuchi, A. Yamaguchi, Hoxie, Rose Becker, Kiosz, Joe Holub and Kreitzberg. July disagreement and Martin's acquittal precede this retrial; exact personal custody endpoints remain unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n221-NAT-sep-13-1930-DW-LOC.pdf