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.
The March 1920 One Big Union Monthly prisoner roster provides a contemporaneous procedural account. The roster reports that he was out on $10,000 bond pending appeal in the Chicago IWW prosecution. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n03-mar-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=6
The 1920 Chicago conspiracy report lists him among defendants whose cases were dismissed. It does not separately supply the physical-release day; dismissal is not a new Leavenworth endpoint for his earlier federal case.
The One Big Union Monthly, May 1920, vol. 2 no. 5, PDF page 60.
The March1922 official report lists George Andreytchine) in List1 of convicted prisoners or parolees. The government entry reports Conspiracy and violating the espionage act, etc. a sentence of August 30, 1918, 20 years Leavenworth; fined $20,000.. Imposed terms, projected term-expiration dates, parole eligibility and intervals on bond are different measures; none is entered as a complete actual custody total. This attributed government entry is retained alongside the independently established individual chronology. [PDF3]
Government Prosecutions under the Espionage Act, Senate Document159 (March1922), PDF page 3.
