Justus Schwab
Justus H. Schwab was the keeper of a radical saloon in New York City's Lower East Side. An emigre from Germany, Schwab was involved in early American anarchism in the early 1880s, including the anti-authoritarian New York Social Revolutionary Club's split from the Socialist Labor Party and Johann Most's entry to the United States.Life and career
Justus H. Schwab was born in Germany in 1847. He immigrated into the United States in 1868. Schwab ran a saloon in New York City's Lower East Side that was popular among radicals. Emma Goldman and the periodical Sturmvogel used the saloon as their mailing address. Writers including Ambrose Bierce, Sadakichi Hartmann, and James Huneker also frequented the bar.
During the 1874 Tompkins Square Park riot, Schwab was arrested for showing a red flag. He sang The Marseillaise during his arrest. Schwab was cast out of the Socialist Labor Party for opposing alliance with the Greenback Party in the 1880 election. He was involved in the formation of the splinter New York Social Revolutionary Club to pursue the Gotha Program in late 1880. Schwab represented the club at the 1881 Chicago Social Revolutionary Congress. Schwab became an anarchist in early 1880s, a term that emerged during this period and was synonymous with social revolutionary, anti-authoritarian socialism.
