Herling, John P. (John Phillip), 1917-

John Herling, a prominent Washington journalist, syndicated labor columnist, and author graduated from Harvard in 1928 and later became an observer of events in the labor movement and the world of business and government. Until 1934, he worked for the League for Industrial Democracy, and between 1929 and 1940 he served as a director of the Children's Crusade for Children, assisting war refugees in Europe. During the presidential campaigns of 1928, 1932, and 1936, he served as a research assistant and publicity director for Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party candidate. Having served as a director of the Labor and Social Relations division of the Office of Inter-American Affairs, he later became a special correspondent in Europe for the Voice of America during the 1940s and a White House correspondent and labor affairs columnist for several newspapers. At the time of his death in February 1994, he was writing a history of the United Autoworkers.