The Union Review (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 4 of 14
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THE LIFE STORY OF
DR. CHARLES STELZLE
Budweiser Beer—White Rock Water
California Wines
Wholesale Grocers and
Importers
Galveston Piano Company
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Auto Accessories
P. J. BELLEW
The Working Man’s Friend
GREETINGS To Organized Labor
FROM
Careful, Courteous
Service
MAKES SHOPPING A PLEASURE
at
McBride’s
C. C. WASHINGTON
COUNTY ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR
FRANK L. BIAGGNE
Sheriff Galveston County
Compliments of
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(Incorporated)
The life story of Dr. Charles Stelzle whose articles are being
so widely printed by the labor press of this country reads like a
romance- which could have had its setting only in America. Begin-
ning in an East Side tenement in lower New York, where he lived
for twenty years, and where he endured the hardship and suffering
of the poorest of his neighbors, he became one of the country’s
outstanding interpreters of industrial problems. Had he decided
to become a “labor leader,” pure and simple, he has the force and
the ability to make for himself an international reputation as organ-
izer, speaker and writer, in behalf of Labor, although he has become
internationally known as a leader in social and economic affairs.
While he has been a member of the International Association
of Machinists for 35 years, he has never held an office in the Labor
movement, nor has he ever accepted a fee or an honorarium from
Labor for the many kinds of service rendered in its behalf. Neither
has he ever received any compensation from employers of Labor
for work done in the field of industry, although he has frequently
been offered important positions by employers’ associations or those
interested in industrial matters. He has never accepted a client who
opposed the organization of Labor although he has frankly criticized
the actions of certain types of Labor when he felt this seemed justi-
fiable. He has made this an important part of his personal “creed.’
He has written a dozen books, hundreds of magazine and news-
paper articles, and for many years he has been a feature and editorial
writer for metropolitan newspapers and syndicates. Today, over 200
monthly and weekly labor journals regularly print his articles, these
journals having a circulation of about 4,000,000 copies, which are
read by fully 10,000,000 persons.
The major part of Dr. Stelzle’s life has been given to the personal
study of the problems affecting Labor, not only in the United States
but in many European countries. However, his initial interest in
Labor was aroused while he was a worker in the ranks, beginning
in the works of R. Hoe and Co., makers of newspaper presses in
New York City, where he served an apprenticeship of five years,
and three years as a journeyman machinist. He later became a Pres-
byterian preacher. While he never went to college or theological
seminary, having left the public school when he was 11 years old
to go to work, he satisfactorily passed all the examinations required
for ordination. He had attended night school for ten years and taken
special courses of study. After he had been a preacher for several
years he was offered the job of manager of R. Hoe and Co., which
he declined. His chief interest was still in the welfare and improved
conditions of Labor.
He then organized the Labor Department of the national Pres-
byterian Church, the first of its kind to be established by any church
in this country, and which he directed for ten years. Among the
various enterprises he set up was the Labor Temple in lower New
York, which served as a forum to discuss Labor’s problems. This
institution became internationally famous, and is still in operation.
He has organized and addressed some of the largest meetings of
workingmen ever conducted in this country, his audiences frequently
numbering from 15,000 to 20,000 men.
He made intensive studies of hundreds of cities to find out about
the living conditions of the workers. He served as chairman of
arbitration boards in settling industrial disputes, notably in the
newspaper offices in New York City. He was the Director of Relief
and Emergency Measures for the Mayor’s committees on unem-
ployment in New York City during one of its periods of depression,
and he has constantly addressed a great variety of audiences in col-
leges, business and advertising conventions, religious assemblies,
open forums, Chautauquas, women’s clubs and other organizations,
presenting the problems of the workers.
In order to have the preachers of the country 'become familiar
with Labor’s problems, he inaugurated the plan of sending ministers
to meetings of Central Labor bodies as fraternal delegates. This
plan was at one time in operation in over 150 cities. He was person-
ally accepted for about a dozen years as a fraternal delegate at the
annual conventions of the A. F. of L., which he addressed each
year, through which he became acquainted with hundreds of the
outstanding labor officials in this country.
Recognized as an authority on industrial matters, he served as
counsellor for many organizations, and helped 'in the inauguration
of constructive programs for national bodies and in local communi-
ties. In recognition of services of this character, Cumberland Uni-
versity, of which Secretary Hull is a graduate and trustee, conferred
upon him the degre of “Doctor of Laws” several years ago. “Who’s
Who in America” has for many years given him large space in its
annual publication, and he has been widely quoted in various reports
and documents showing the progress of industrial workers.
This, 'briefly, is the story of the East Side boy, who was newsboy,
messenger, street peddler, bus boy, and machinist, before he became
an international figure in helping to set in motion programs and
organizations in order to dignify Labor and to give it the place in
the life of the nation which it deserved. Samuel Gompers once said
to him that he might have anything within the gift of Organized
Labor if he cared to express his wish. But he has preferred to do
the job in his own way. And Organized Labor has favored .him,
not by giving him a job, or any kind of public recognition, but by
making him one of Labor’s most generally accepted friends and
counsellors through the medium of the labor press.,
This is one of the highest compliments that Labor can pay to
any man, but the compliment that Dr. Stelzle values equally is that
paid him by a noted metropolitan newspaper editor who wrote con-
corning him: “He has met and worked with the most famous men
of his time, but he never lost the common touch.” He has addressed
audiences which included the greatest men in America, including
presidents of the United States, several of whom have called upon
him for counsel and advice, but he is happiest when he meets and
talks with some of the shopmates who served their apprenticeship
with him fifty years ago.
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