George A. Schilling (1850 in Baden[1] - 1936) was a prominent American union leader and Georgist in the late nineteenth century.
[2] From 1865 to the 1890s, Schilling worked in Chicago for the Arbeiter Zeitung, a German-language newspaper with socialist (and later, anarchist) leanings.
[3] In 1892, Schilling endorsed Altgeld in a successful race for Governor of Illinois.
[4] In 1893, he was appointed by Governor Altgeld as secretary on the State Board of Labor Commissioners, and in 1903 he was appointed by Altgeld to the Chicago Board of Local Improvements.
[3] In 1919 Schilling was a signatory to the call to establish the Committee of 48, a liberal political organization which sought to establish a third party in America between the ideological poles of reaction on the one hand and revolution on the other.