Benjamin Stolberg

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Benjamin Stolberg (born November 30, 1891 in Elisabethgrad , † January 21, 1951 in New York ) was an American social scientist and journalist of Russian origin.

Life

The son of Ukrainian-Jewish emigrants grew up in Munich , where he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in 1902/03 and graduated from the Realgymnasium. In 1908/09 he emigrated to the USA. He first lived with relatives in St. Louis and studied medicine at the private Washington University in St. Louis . From 1909 to 1914 he lived off odd jobs in various parts of the United States. From 1914 to 1917 he studied without a degree at the also private Harvard University . By 1919 he studied sociology at the University of Chicago . From 1921 he increasingly made a name for himself as a political editor: He began as editor of the "Journal of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers" in Cleveland , Ohio, moved to the Chicago Tribune , the left-wing liberal weekly magazine The Nation , to the likewise left-wing weekly New Republic and as a columnist for the New York Evening Post . In 1923 he moved to New York City , became involved as a critic of the conservative US Labor Organization , was promoted to chair of the League for Industrial Democracy in New York and was co-editor of the literary magazine "The Bookman". In the 1930s he was considered one of the harshest critics of the New Deal and was a leading authority on questions of communism and the working class in the United States. He joined the defenders of Leon Trotsky (including John Dewey ) and published numerous critical political writings up to his death. As a staunch anti-Stalinist, he advocated the persecution of communists and their sympathizers under Senator Joseph McCarthy .

Stolberg's son David Stolberg (1927–2011) worked as a journalist and editor; the granddaughter, Mary M. Stolberg (* 1956) is a writer.

literature

  • Margot Hamm, Michael Henker, Evamaria Brockhoff (edit.): The emigration from Bavaria to North America since 1683. Primus Verlag, Augsburg 2004 (catalog for the traveling exhibition (Nördlingen, Rosenheim and others). ISBN 3-896-78522-2
  • Christopher Phelps: Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas. University of Nottingham 2017: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41406/1/Phelps%20-%20Broun%20and%20Stolberg.pdf . ISSN 1558-1454
  • Benjamin Stolberg Papers 1914–1951. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, NY

Publications (selection)

  • The Economic Consequences of the New Deal (with Warren Jay Vinton). Harcourt, Brace, New York 1935
  • The Story of the CIO. Viking Press, New York 1938
  • Tailor's Progress: The Story of a Famous Union and the Men Who Made It.Doubleday, Doran, New York 1944

Newspaper articles:

  • Prof. Kallen on Class Warfare , in: Chicago Evening Post, February 7, 1919
  • The Kansas Industrial Court , in: The Federated Press, February 24 and February 28, 1921
  • The Great Stupidity: The Story of the Labor Board's Strike , in: Labor Age 11, no.9: 18, 1922
  • The Tragedy of Coal , in: The Nation, March 1922
  • The Vanguard , in: The Survey, May 20, 1922
  • Diverging Paths on Labor's Highway , in: New York World, August 19, 1923
  • Railroad Labor Amalgamation , in: The New Republic, February 21, 1923
  • Railroad Labor's Tendencies , in: The New York Post, August 16, 1923
  • The Revolt in the Unions , in: The Nation, June 25, 1923
  • Beginning the Great Change in Industry, Labor Unions, Assuming Responsibility, Show Capital How to Solve Its Problems , in: New York World, October 5, 1924
  • The Mouse That Frightens Hughes , in: Hearst's International, March 1924
  • The Shake-Up of the World Is Rousing Women to Action , in: New York World, April 13, 1924
  • A Great Journalist , in: The New Leader, July 18, 1925
  • The End of the Gompers Tradition: A New Drift in the American Federation of Labor , in: The Independent, February 14, 1925
  • The Peter Pans of Communism , in: The Century, June 1925
  • The Predicament of American Labor , in: The Nation, September 30, 1925
  • The Vagaries of Communism , in: Commonweal, December 30, 1925
  • Labor Action Varies in Different Lands , in: The New York Times, September 26, 1926
  • The New Unionism , in: The Modern Quarterly 3, no. 4, September-December 1926, pp: 292-300
  • William Green's Convention , in: The Nation, November 3, 1926
  • The Pullman Peon: A Study in Industrial Race Exploitation , in: The Nation, April 7, 1926
  • The Man Behind the Times , in: Atlantic Monthly 138, December 1926, pp. 721-730
  • The Collapse of the Needle Trades , in: The Nation, May 4, 1927, pp. 496-498; May 11, 1927, p. 524; May 18, 1927, pp. 554-555
  • Pot Calls the Kettle Black , in: New Leader, Jan. 28, 1928
  • The Tailor and the Scientific Method , in: The Nation, June 13, 1928
  • Degradation of American Psychology , in: The Nation, October 15, 1930, pp. 395-397
  • Big Steel, Little Steel, and the CIO , in: The Nation, July 31, 1931, pp. 119-122
  • Ballyhoo and the Higher Learning , in: The Nation, Feb. 18, 1932, pp. 175-176

. * Votes Won't Do It! , in: Common Sense 1, no.5: 11, 12, 1933

  • Morris Hillquit , in: The American Mercury 33, no. 129, pp. 122, 123. 1934
  • Critique of Chaos , in: The Nation, May 1, 1935, p. 505
  • John L. Lewis, Portrait of a Realist , in: The Nation, August 1, 1936
  • The Education of John L. Lewis , in: The Nation, August 8, 1936
  • The Education of John L. Lewis III , in: The Nation, August 15, 1936
  • Buzz Windrip - Governor of Georgia , The Nation, Mar. 4, 1936, pp. 269-271; March 11, 1936, pp. 316-318
  • The CIO Moves On , in: The Nation, February 20, 1937, pp. 203-204 (with Cordell Hull)
  • Inside the CIO , in: The New York World Telegram, January 10, 1938 and 11 following issues
  • Thermidor and the Lady Giraffe , in: Common Sense 7, no.1: 1938, pp. 21, 22
  • Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Failure? , in: Modern Quarterly 11, no 1, 1938, p. 13
  • Collapse of Communism in US , in: The Herald Tribune, November 26, 1939 and 5 subsequent issues
  • Communist Wreckers in American Labor , in: Saturday Evening Post 212, no. 10, 1939, pp. 5-7, 32-36
  • The Vanishing American , in: The American Mercury, April 1940, pp. 391-399
  • Inside Labor , in: The American Mercury 53, August 1941, p. 180
  • Sinclair Lewis , in: The American Mercury 53, October 1941, pp. 450-453, 459
  • Behind the Labor Crisis , in: The American Mercury, May 1942, pp. 578-590
  • Acheson of the State Department , in: The American Mercury, May 1946, pp. 519-526

Reviews:

  • An Autobiographical Libel (Samuel Gompers: Seventy Years of Life and Labor), in: The Nation, July 22, 1925, p. 119
  • Au Revoir, Mr. Douglas (Norman Douglas: Good-Bye to Western Culture), in: The Nation, October 1, 1930, p. 53
  • The Black Man's Burden (Leonard Barnes: Caliban in Africa), in: The Nation, July 1, 1931, pp. 20-21
  • Clarence Darrow (Clarende Darrof my Life), in: The Nation, March 2, 1932, p. 261
  • The Americanization of Karl Marx (Sid ey Hook: Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx), in: The Nation, April 12, 1933, p. 414
  • Consumers Can't Make a Revolution (JB Matthews and Ruth Enalda Shallcross: Partners in Plunder), in: The New Republic, May 15, 1935, p. 24
  • Dr. Edman Looks at Democracy (Irwin Edman, Herbert W. Schneider: Fountainheads of Freedom), in: The American Mercury, February 1942, pp. 243-246
  • Robert A. Taft: American Liberal , in: The American Mercury 71, October 1950, pp. 387-399

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not New York or Munich, as occasionally stated
  2. ↑ according to Phelps: Michael and Fraide Stolberg; the register of the Maximiliansgymnasium 1902/03 names the businessman Abraham Stolberg as the father and gives the student's Munich address: Schraudolphstr. 21/1 l. at Reisakovich
  3. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 902/03
  4. ↑ the website https://libertyellisfoundation.org/zügeger-result lists Benjamin Stolberg 1909, 17 years old; from Munich, on the "Friedrich der Große" and in 1912 (St. Louis, Mo., USA, on the "Mauretania"); also Stolberg, Frade, from Jekaterinoslav; on the "Estonia" 1908
  5. ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hartfordcourant/obituary.aspx?pid=151319931
  6. ↑ u. a .: No Man is an Orphan in America: The Education of Benjamin Stolberg. Unpublished manuscript, May 1986 (University of Washington); quote: Christopher Phelps
personal data
SURNAME Stolberg, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social scientist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Elisabethgrad
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1951
Place of death new York