Biography
Louis G. Mische was an Industrial Workers of the World organizer detained during the First Red Scare. The One Big Union Monthly names him among IWW detainees transferred from Seattle to Ellis Island in February 1919 for deportation proceedings. His son, Catonsville Nine activist George Mische, later recalled that his father had also been jailed in Spokane and had used the name Karl Schmidt. In that oral history, George described the threatened deportation as ultimately defeated when his father’s birth in Cleveland was established. The exact detention and release dates have not been confirmed.
The partial Red Special roster prints Louis Mische among IWW detainees sent from Seattle February 6, 1919 and arriving at Ellis Island February 11. This is a custodial transfer, not an original arrest date. Individual later release/deportation details are retained separately; roster inclusion alone does not establish a completed removal. Name variation is preserved; no exact total is calculated from these transfer dates.
The One Big Union Monthly, June 1920, vol. 2 no. 6, PDF page 39.
