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Obituary, Max S. Hayes
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| News Date | Friday, October 12, 1945 02:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | NYT 10/12/1945
MAX S. HAYES,
DEAN OF LABOR EDITORS
Founder in 1891 of The Citizen
Dies in Cleveland – Defeated
By Gompers for AFL Head
Special to The New York Times
Cleveland, Oct. 11 – Max S. Hayes, for almost fifty years the voice of organized labor in this city as editor of the newspaper The Citizen, died in his home here this morning in his eightieth year.
Hayes was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage at his residence after his first visit to a hospital on Oct. 28, 1939. Two weeks later a paralytic stroke affected his eyesight.
In February, 1941, the dean of American labor editors was honored by 1,000 persons at a testimonial dinner on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of The Citizen. Unable to be present, Hayes heard the speeches over a special telephone wire.
Hayes was born in a cabin at Havana, Ohio, after the family of his father, Maximilian Sebastian Hayes, had pushed their way through the wilderness by canal and ox team to found a new home.
At the age of 16 he came to Cleveland and got a position on The Cleveland Press. After an apprenticeship in printing he joined Typographical Union 53.
On Jan. 31, 1891, he founded The Citizen, now the oldest labor paper in the United States. The paper in four years was so widely recognized as the voice of the working class that the American Federation of Labor was forced to start The American Federationist or accept The Citizen as the official labor paper of the nation.
In 1911, Hayes ran for president of the American Federation of Labor and was defeated by the late Samuel Gompers. Hayes and the late Eugene V. Debs, head of the Socialist Party, were close friends.
He leaves a widow and a daughter, Maxine Davey, who was married in 1931 to A.I. Davey Jr., son of a founder of the Empire Steel Corporation. Davey began writing articles for The Citizen in 1934, became assistant editor in September 1938, and managing editor when Hayes became ill. |
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