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A number of socialists, anarchists, and labor activists have chosen to
be buried or have their ashes scattered near the
Haymarket monument,
in what is sometimes jokingly referred to as "the Communist Plot".
Among them:
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- Emma Goldman (1869-1940), whose
upright monument appears in shadow at the right in the above picture.
- William Foster (1881-1966), union organizer, author,
Communist Party USA candidate for president.
- Jack Johnstone (1881-1942), union organizer,
worked with Foster and Mahatma Gandhi
- Art Shields (1888-1988), editor of Solidarity
- Irving Abrams (1891-1980), last survivor of the group
owning the Haymarket monument
- Lucy Parsons (1859-1942), wife of Albert Parsons, founded
Pioneer Aid and Support Association, Industrial Workers of
the World, led May Day 1886 march and 1915 "Unemployed Parade".
- Ben Reitman, MD (1880-1943) "King of the Hobos", leader of
International Itinerant Migratory Workers Union
- Frank A Pellegrino (1890-1969), charter member of Communist
Party USA. His grave features a hammer and sickle.
- Claude Lightfoot (1910-1991), African-American leader of
Communist Party USA, author.
- William "Big Bill" Haywood (1869-1928), founded Industrial
Workers of the World, prominent in "Free Speech Movement".
Jailed for speaking against World War I, fled to Moscow.
Cremated - half of his ashes are here, half in the Kremlin.
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