Biography
Harry Lux was a leader of the Nebraska farm revolt held in solitary confinement on shifting charges during the 1933 farm revolt. The farm revolt of 1933 — the Farmers' Holiday Association and the Communist-led United Farmers' League fighting mortgage foreclosures with penny auctions and picket lines — brought waves of arrests across the Midwest, many under state criminal-syndicalism laws.
The Daily Worker of May 13, 1933, page 2, names Lux among the cases prompting formation of a Farmers National Defense Bureau, with ILD attorney David Levinson as general secretary. Its statement reports a contempt conviction in Nebraska and says his case needed an appeal. It does not establish a new arrest or renewed custody after his previously recorded release on bond.
Rob Hall’s December 1933 Labor Defender account identifies Lux as Nebraska Holiday Association state organizer and reports that the challenged Wilber case had recently been dropped after an appeal and farmer protests. It names the judge Kohout; this contemporary attribution is preserved without replacing the judge recorded in other proceedings. A dropped case is not proof of a new physical release or an exact custody endpoint. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n11-dec-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=16
Rowley corroborates the March 14, 1933 foreclosure-protest arrest before Judge Robert M. Proudfit and April 29 physical bond release. His stated forty-two days conflicts with the 46-day elapsed interval between those printed dates; retain the established exact dates, not an inferred 42-day total. The article reports the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the $250 contempt fine in February 1934 and describes his United Front Senate nomination in 1934. Pages 7-8,23,34-35. Source: https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/doc_publications_NH1966LoupCity.pdf
An April 13, 1934 Lincoln report, published April 14, identifies Harry Lux and Robert Burleigh as jailed for contempt of court connected with a farm-foreclosure protest the previous year. Supporters planned a march and court appearance for April 16. Those plans do not establish an actual release. The renewed custody is separate from Lux’s recorded March–April 1933 period, and its admission and end dates remain unknown.
The Nebraska entry names Lux among farmers arrested at a meeting on a foreclosed farm. It corroborates the existing foreclosure-protest case; it does not establish another arrest or a fresh custody interval.
The farm report states Nebraska Farmers Holiday organizer Lux was released on $1,600 bail on an unlawful-assembly charge. This supports the existing March-April 1933 detention chronology and supplies the bail amount, without merging the separate undated case or inventing another arrest.
The United Farmers League convention call names him among militant farm leaders thrown into jail amid repression of farm organizing. This broad retrospective reference supplies no new exact arrest, sentence or release; existing individual chronology is preserved.
A Wilber dispatch dated March 26 in the March 27, 1933 Naujienos reports that Harry Lux and fifteen others were found guilty of contempt for obstructing foreclosure sales. It gives March 4 as the arrest date and says Lux remained jailed from his arrest, with a $250 fine; the other fines are described separately. The March 4 report differs from the March 14 arrest and admission retained in the existing case chronology. This source does not resolve that discrepancy or establish a separate arrest or physical release.