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August Spies' Auto-Biography; His Speech in Court and General Notes. Chicago: Nina van Zandt, 1887 Memoir of one of the most prominent of the Chicago Haymarket martyrs of 1887, August Vincent Theodore Spies (born 1855). Spies, the editor of the radical "Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung" (Chicago Workers' News), was a speaker at the ill-fated May 4 ...
22. Jan. 2019 · By some counts, half a million men were on strike across the United States in the time of the Haymarket riot, with 30,000-40,000 on strike in Chicago alone. All that came to a head on May 3, 1886. Employees on strike at Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant rushed out to confront some strikebreakers – workers sent in by the ...
30. Apr. 2024 · Amid the panic, August Spies and seven other anarchists were convicted of murder on the grounds that they had conspired with or aided an unknown assailant. Many of the so-called “ Chicago Eight,” however, were not even present at the May 4 event, and their alleged involvement was never proved.
My name is August Vincent Theodore Spies (pronounced Spees). I was born within the ruins of the old robbers castle Landeck upon a high mountains peak (Landeckerberg) in Central Germany in 1855. My father was a forester (a government administrator of a forest district); the forest house was a government building and served - only in a different ...
August Spies. August Spies (his name rhymes with keys) died for what he believed. That's a brave thing to do. He was born in Germany and came to Chicago in 1872.
August Spies was born near Bad Hersfeld in central Hessen in 1855 and trained at the Polytechnikum in Kassel. Orphaned at age 17, he emigrated to the US, finally settling in Chicago in 1873, where he became a pivotal figure in the emerging labor movement. Spies was one of seven “anarchists” unjustly sentenced to death in connection with the Haymarket affair of 1886, a turning point in the ...
