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Carl Speyer (1845–1???) was a German socialist active in Germany, London and the United States.

He was a member of the board of the Arbeiter Zeitung and secretary of the Vereingte Tischler New Yorks, a German joiners union based in the city, as well as a founding member of the International Labor Union established in Paterson, New Jersey, in December 1878.

References

1. "Speyer, Carl". www.leksikon.org. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
2. Reick, Philipp (2016). "Labor is not a Commodity!": The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag. p. 73.
3. John R. Commons et al. History of Labour in the United States: Nationalisation (1860–1877) Volume 2 of History of Labour in the United States p. 301

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