Arbeiter-Zeitung (Chicago)
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The Arbeiter-Zeitung, also known as the Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung a German language anarchist newspaper, was started in Chicago, Illinois, in 1877 by veterans of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 [1]. It continued publishing through 1931. It was the first working-class newspaper in Chicago to last for a significant period, and sustained itself primarily through reader funding; the reader-owners removed several editors over its run due to disagreements over editorial policies. [2]
The Haymarket Square bombing provided a convenient excuse for the Chicago police to crack down on the Arbeiter-Zeitung. Its offices were raided; and speeches and writings published in the paper were frequently the chief "evidence" used to convict and hang the anarchists who were arrested in its wake. Its editor, August Spies, and a typesetter, Adolph Fischer, were executed in the subsequent hysteria; business manager Oscar Neebe and chief editorial assistant Michael Schwab, were sentenced to death, but later pardoned.[3]
The library of the University of Cincinnati has several years' holdings of the Arbeiter-Zeitung on microfilm in its German-Americana Collection. [4]
See also
References
- "The First Anarchist Daily Newspaper: The Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung" by Jon Bekken. Anarchist Studies Volume 3, 2003 No.1 abstract
- "Chicago Labor in Politics 1877-96" by Edward B. Mittelman. The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 28, No. 5 (May, 1920), pp. 407-427. [5]
