Justus H. Schwab (1847–1900) was the keeper of a radical saloon in New York City's Lower East Side.

Writers including Ambrose Bierce, Sadakichi Hartmann, and James Huneker also frequented the bar.

[3] A financial panic in 1873 set off an economic depression that lasted the rest of the decade with progressively worsening unemployment, homelessness, starvation, and general hardship.

[2] He was involved in the formation of the splinter New York Social Revolutionary Club to pursue the Gotha Program in late 1880.

[7] Schwab spoke at the Social Revolutionary Club's reception for Johann Most's arrival in New York.