Biography
George Kiosz was a Los Angeles labor activist prosecuted in the unemployment-demonstration cases of 1930. He was represented by International Labor Defense attorney Leo Gallagher in the trial arising from the February 26 and March 6 protests. The first trial ended with a jury disagreement, and the defendants were tried again in September. The Labor Defender listed Kiosz among its prisoners with a one-year sentence. He had previously been arrested in November 1929 for distributing leaflets advertising the anniversary of the Russian Revolution; the International Labor Defense furnished bail.
Page 3 individually names this worker among Los Angeles arrests for distributing Russian Revolution anniversary handbills in the week before the November 11 dispatch, with ILD-furnished bail actually reported. The list contains seven names despite a stated eight arrested. This 1929 episode is distinct from the subsequent 1930 unemployment cases; no exact day or final handbill verdict is given. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n213-NY-nov-12-1929-DW-LOC.pdf
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
The Behind the Bars directory on printed page 4 lists this prisoner under Los Angeles City Jail No. 6, California, with one year, 1930. This is an attributed historical directory entry: the year and nominal term do not establish an intake day, uninterrupted imprisonment, completed service or physical release.
Daily Worker, November 12, 1929; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, September 13, 1930; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
