Michael Schwab (August 9, 1853 – June 29, 1898) was a German-American labor organizer and one of the defendants in the
Haymarket Square incident.
During his last years Schwab abandoned anarchist doctrine and embraced international socialism, speaking and writing in opposition to the notion of revolution by force.
Schwab had intestinal and pulmonary issues during his last years, for which he was hospitalized at the
Alexian Brothers' Hospital in Chicago in November 1897.
He remained there for the last seven months of his life, undergoing an operation in the middle of May 1898.
Schwab died from his chronic internal ailment on June 29, 1898.
The Social Turnverein of Chicago arranged his funeral and announced plans for his immediate cremation.
He was cremated on July 6 and his widow received his ashes.
["M. Schwab's Body Burned: Ashes of Dead Socialist Leader Will be Disposed of By His Wife: Under No Circumstances Will They Be Buried at Waldheim Cemetery," ''Chicago Dispatch,'' July 6, 1898, unspecified page. Copy preserved in ''The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945'' microfilm edition, reel 9.]
Schwab was married to the sister of Rudolph Schnaubelt (1863–1901), a Chicago anarchist believed by many to have actually thrown the bomb at Haymarket.
["M. Schwab, the Anarchist, Passes Away," ''Chicago Dispatch,'' June 29, 1898, unspecified page. Copy preserved in ''The Papers of Eugene V. Debs, 1834-1945'' microfilm edition, reel 9.] Together the couple had three children.
See also
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Arbeiter-Zeitung (Chicago)
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The ''Arbeiter-Zeitung'', also known as the ''Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung'' was a German-language, radical newspaper started in Chicago, Illinois in 1877 by veterans of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. It continued publishing through 1 ...
Footnotes
Further reading
Testimony of Michael Schwab Illinois v. August Spies, Trial Transcript, Vol. N, p. 1-17, August 9, 1886.
Meet the Haymarket Defendants
External links
* John P. Altgeld
Chicago Historical Society, www.chicagohs.org/
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