George Andreytchine

AKA: George Andreychine
Released
Date of birth:20. 01. 1894
Date of death:20. 04. 1950
Age:56† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Illinois
Support
Communism Anti-Militarism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
George Andreytchine

Biography

George Andreytchine was a Bulgarian-born IWW organizer and editor active in the Minnesota Mesabi Range iron strikes. Convicted in the 1918 Chicago Espionage Act mass trial, he drew one of the maximum sentences; free on bail, he jumped bail alongside Bill Haywood in 1921 and fled to Soviet Russia, where he was later caught up in Stalin's purges and executed in 1950.

George Andreychine, the editor of the IWW's Bulgarian language newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to twenty years in prison and fined $20,000. He served in Leavenworth Penitentiary from September 7, 1918, to June 8, 1919. Andreychine jumped bail while his appeal was pendingandbecamea fugitive from the law. He is said to have fled to Russia and to have been executed by Stalin's secret police.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy under the Espionage Act — opposing World War I (1918 Chicago IWW mass trial)
Sentence: Twenty-year maximum plus a $30,000 fine; jumped bail in 1921 and fled to Soviet Russia rather than serve Verdict as recorded: Yes — convicted August 1918 ADMITTED TO BAIL, APRIL 2, 1919. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ordered thirty-eight of the men convicted in the Chicago mass trial released on bail pending its review of the case; the bonds ran from $5,000 to $10,000, with Haywood alone required to provide $15,000. Fifty-five others convicted in the same case did not seek bail. The order is not the release: each man left Leavenworth when his bond was actually furnished, which for those whose dates are recorded here fell between April 28 and September 28, 1919. Reported in the New York Times and across the wire services, April 3, 1919.
Convicted: Yes

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