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Up for sale "Social Reformer" Paul Kellogg Hand Signed Letterhead Dated 1908.
30, 1879 – November 1, 1958) was an He died at 79 in New York on November 1, 1958. He was born
in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in
1879. After working as a journalist he moved to New York City to study at Columbia University. After
university Kellogg worked for Charities magazine before
carrying out an unprecedented, in-depth study of industrial life in Pittsburgh. Published
as The Pittsburgh Survey (1910–14),
it became a model for sociologists wishing
to employ research to aid social reform.[ His studies which helped
to abolish the seven-day work week. Kellogg returned
to Charities magazine, now retitled Survey magazine.
He became editor in 1912 and over the next few years turned into America's
leading social work journal. An opponent of U.S. involvement in the First World War, Kellogg joined Jane Addams and Oswald Garrison Villard,
to persuade Henry Ford, the American
industrialist, to organize a peace conference in Stockholm. Ford came up with the idea of sending a boat
of pacifists to Europe to determine if they could negotiate
an agreement to end the war. He chartered the ship Oskar II, and it
sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, on
December 4, 1915. The Ford Peace Ship reached Stockholm in January, 1916, and a
conference was organized with representatives from Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United States. In 1918
Kellogg became the chairman of the Foreign Policy Association in
New York. By the 1920s, Kellogg had become appalled by the way people were
being persecuted for their political beliefs, particularly by President Woodrow Wilson's appointee A. Mitchell Palmer. In
1920, Kellogg joined with Roger
Baldwin, Norman Thomas, Crystal Eastman, Addams, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Abraham Muste, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Upton Sinclair to form the American Civil Liberties
Union. In 1927 Kellogg joined with John Dos Passos, Alice Hamilton, Addams, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Parker, Ben Shahn, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Floyd Dell, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in an effort to prevent the execution
of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Although Webster Thayer, the
original judge, was officially criticized for his conduct at the trial, the
execution took place on August 23, 1927.