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Nager (Milwaukee antiwar meeting, 1929)

Era:1920s
State:Wisconsin
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Biography

Nager is individually named among three speakers arrested at the Milwaukee antiwar demonstration at Second and Wisconsin Avenues on the night before the February 24 dispatch, supporting February 23, 1929. The report says workers then marched to the jail demanding their release. It supplies no formal charge, sentence, actual release or duration. Only this surname is supplied; no given name or link to another namesake is established. Source: Daily Worker, February 25, 1929, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v05-n358-NY-feb-25-1929-DW-LOC.pdf

Case

Charges: Arrest during an antiwar demonstration; statutory charge not specified.
Arrested: Feb 23, 1929
Incarcerated: Feb 23, 1929
Sentence: Jailed after police broke through the crowd to the speakers; workers marched to jail demanding release. Actual discharge and duration unknown.