Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the ConspiratorsSchaack, Michael J.
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Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators
“Subsequently I called upon Secretary Lotz and asked for the book of
membership of the North Side group. I found that Charles Bock was
its financial secretary; Hubner, librarian; and Rau, delegate to
the central committee, which position he held almost continuously.
Abraham Hermann was also a delegate and agent for the sale of arms
to the whole organization. The principal speakers at our meetings
were Schwab, Feltes or Veltes, Neebe, Grottkau and (while living
in the city) Kraemer. During 1885 an Austrian, whose name I don’t
remember, spoke very often, but he is now at the Jefferson Insane
Asylum. Fischer is one of the founders of the North Side group and
always spoke most strongly in favor of Anarchy. Rau, an employé of
the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_, Lingg, Schnaubelt and Emil Hoffman, the
cigar-maker, also spoke frequently. Hoffman claimed that he was a
great friend of Most and one of the founders of _Freiheit_ of London.
He had lived in London several years and was an active member until
he left our organization, as I have already stated. Hermann would
sometimes take the places of speakers who might happen to be absent
from some of the meetings. Hirschberger, of the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_,
and Menz, a carpenter, born in America, generally participated in some
of the discussions.
“A man named Kiesling was a member, and after my liberation from the
station I was informed by Haker, Kaiser and another man that he had
helped a member to escape arrest. Commes, or Commens, had shot and
wounded two Jews, and Kiesling was delegated to take him in an express
wagon to Lake View, where he turned him over to some members of the
Southwest Side group, who then assisted him in effecting his escape.”
Seliger then gave a number of names of members who belonged to the
groups he was most familiar with, as follows:
“_North Side Group._—Asher, a mason; Turban, carpenter; Huber,
carpenter; Heuman, railroad laborer; Stak, cornice-maker; Reuter;
Habitzreiter, of the _Arbeiter-Zeitung_; Kasbe, shoemaker; Menge,
carrier of _Arbeiter-Zeitung_; Hoelscher, carrier of same paper;
Jebolinski, carpenter; Behrens, shoemaker. Members no longer with
group: Wichman, a saloon-keeper, expelled from Berlin, Germany; Ammer,
book-binder; the Thiesen brothers, one a shoemaker and the other a
carpenter, and Polling.
“_Northwest Side Group._—Blume, carpenter; Elias, carpenter; Fischer,
Engel, Lehnhard, Breitenfeld. Blume and Elias left because they were
quarreling all the time with Fischer, and they founded the Karl Marx
group.
“_Southwest Side Group._—Scholz; Fehling, cigar-maker; Kaiser,
carpenter; Haker, carpenter; Schoening.”
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