August Spies (American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor)
- August Vincent Theodor Spies
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- Spies, August
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- Date of birth
- 1855-12-10
- Place of birth
- Hessen
- Date of death
- 1887-11-11
- Place of death
- Chicago
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August Vincent Theodore Spies (, SPEES; December 10, 1855 – November 11, 1887) was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. One of the most prominent German-speaking anarchists in America during the decade of the 1880s, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair. Spies was one of four who were executed in the aftermath of this event.
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- 2023-05-15