Biography
Stanley Gancharik was a Russian worker associated with the Industrial Workers of the World who was held in Chicago’s Cook County Jail during World War I. In an account published in the Industrial Worker on March 23, 1918, fellow detainee Harrison George reported that Gancharik was arrested in June 1917 as an alleged draft evader and released in December with advanced tuberculosis. George recorded his death on February 25, 1918 and blamed the jail’s conditions for the deterioration of his health. An April 1918 Mother Earth Bulletin report also noted his death, using the spelling Stanley Jansharick. He died after release, rather than in custody. These accounts do not establish a conviction, prison sentence or his personal reason for the alleged draft violation.
