Background
Haessler, Carl was born on August 5, 1888 in Milwaukee. Son of Herman F. and Lina Elizabeth (Wagner) Haessler.
Haessler, Carl was born on August 5, 1888 in Milwaukee. Son of Herman F. and Lina Elizabeth (Wagner) Haessler.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Wisconsin, 1911. Bachelor of Arts (Rhodes Scholar), Balliol College, University of Oxford, England, 1914. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1917.
Two children; married second, Lucy Whitaker, 1940. Foreign correspondent Milwaukee Leader, 1911-1914, mail circulation manager, 1917-1918, staff city room, 1920-1921. Instructor philosophy University of Illinois, 1914-1917.
Lecturer forum groups, labor schools from 1920.
Milwaukee correspondent Federated Press, 1920-1921, managing editor, secretary-treasurer from 1922. Financial, free lance publicity, Chicago, 1928-1937.
Publicity, editorial work U.A.W. (Flint sitdown strike, 1937), United Rubber Workers C.I.O., 1937. Labor’s Non-Partisan League on Supreme Court Reform, Washington, 1937, Detroit publicity and editing, U.A.W., C.I.O., 1937-1962.
Vice president H. F. Haessler Hardware Company, Milwaukee, 1943-1951.
Editor Union Engineer (American Federation of Labor-Congress) Detroit, 1953-1965. Detroit correspondent The National Guardian, New York City, from 1961. Trustee Institute Applied Religion, 1942-1949.
Drafted for United States military service, 1918 (court-martialed as radical objector, general prisoner Fort Leavenworth, United States Disciplinary Barracks, Alcatraz, 1918-1920).
Member American Newspaper Guild, Phi Beta Kappa. Club: National Press (Washington).
Married Mildred Barnes, 1917. Married second, Lucy Whitaker, 1940.