Matthew Stachiw was a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 politician. He served in the Ukrainian Army between 1918 and 1920. Afterwards received a LL.D. from the University of Prague

Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...

. He worked as a lawyer, university teacher and editor of several publications.

Stachiw represented the Ukrainian Socialist-Radical Party

Ukrainian Radical Party

The Ukrainian Radical Party, , founded in October 1890 and based on the Radical movement in western Ukraine dating from the 1870s, was the first modern Ukrainian political party with a defined program, mass following, and registered membership...

 in the Executive Committee of the Labour and Socialist International

Labour and Socialist International

The Labour and Socialist International was an international organization of socialist and labour parties, active between 1923 and 1940. The LSI was a forerunner of the present-day Socialist International....

 between August 1931 and 1940.

As of the early 1960s, Stachiw served as editor of the weekly newspaper Narodna Volya

Narodna Volya

Narodna Volya was a Ukrainian-language weekly newspaper published from Scranton, United States. As of the early 1960s, Matthew Stachiw was the editor of the newspaper. The newspaper had a circulation of around 8,000 at the time. Politically, Narodna Volya was close to the Ukrainian Socialist Party...

(issued from Scranton). He was also active in various Ukrainian-American associations.