Stolberg wrote for the Saturday Evening Post – and from 1939 to 1945 he and its publisher,
the Curtis Publishing, defended themselves from a libel suit brought against them by Jerome Davis for the September 2, 1939, article "Communist Wreckers in American Labor." Stolberg had called Davis a "Communist and Stalinist." Davis brought on ACLU co-founder Arthur Garfield Hays as his lawyer. Stolberg hired Louis Waldman, an "Old Guard" Socialist and anti-communist labor lawyer. The case went before the New York Supreme Court, with Justice John F. Carew presiding.[1][2][3]
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"Dr. Davis Defended by Sherwood Eddy: Former Teachers Union Head 'Always Attacked Evils of Communism,' Jury Hears". The New York Times. 20 May 1943.
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"Libel Suit Asks $150,000: Head of Federation of Teachers Sues on Magazine Article". The New York Times. 5 December 1939.
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"Dr. Davis Testifies in His Libel Action". The New York Times. 18 May 1943.
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"Fosdick, SS Wise Testify for Davis: Minister Says Plaintiff in Libel Suit 'Couldn't Be a Communist if He Tried'". The New York Times. 22 May 1943.
^ ab"Browder Is Quoted in Davis Libel Case: Stolberg Says Communist's Books Were Part of His Basis for Calling Teacher a Red". The New York Times. 26 May 1943.
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"Woll Links Davis to Ranks of Reds: Even 'Some Communists' Thought Educator Was Party Member". The New York Times. 28 May 1943.
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"Soviet Leanings Seen in Book by Dr. Davis: Former Moscow Correspondent Points to 'Omissions' in Work". The New York Times. 2 June 1943.
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"Dr. Davis Classed As 96% Red Backer: Catholic Educator First Says Union Leader Is 10% Short of Favoring Communism". The New York Times. 3 June 1943.
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"$100,000 More Asked in Davis Libel Suit: Hays Reveals Court Granted Motion to Seek Higher Damages". The New York Times. 8 June 1943.
^Stolberg, Benjamin (1944). Tailor's Progress: The Story of a Famous Union and the Men Who Made It'. Doubleday, Doran & Co. LCCN44005351.
^Stolberg, Benjamin (1944). Ṿi azoy Sṭolbergs bukh "Teylors progres" zeṭ oys in di oygn fun a ḳloḳmakher. Translated by Joseph Breslaw. Ḳloḳ un sḳirṭ presers yunyon, loḳal 35. LCCN61057998.
Christopher Phelps, "Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the Politics of American Labor Journalism in the 1920s and 1930s," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, vol. 15, no. 1 (March 2018), pp. 25–51.