Biography
George Loh was editor of the German-language newspaper Der Arbeiter in New York. At a 1936 German Day gathering in Milwaukee's Washington Park, he and Elmer Lockner opposed the display of a Nazi swastika. They were beaten and arrested, then released on $300 bail each. The prosecution charged unlawful assemblage and rioting; the International Labor Defense took up their defense. Loh was subsequently convicted and appealed.
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
