Born in Budapest to a Jewish family, Gustav Spiller came to London in 1885 and gained work as a compositor.
Influenced by Stanton Coit, until 1901 he worked as a printer work for the Bank of England for six months every year, using the rest of his time for self-education.
[1] Spiller and Felix Adler organized the International Moral Education Congress, held at the University of London in September 1908.
There Spiller promoted the idea of a Universal Races Congress, which took place in London in 1911 with financial support from John E.
[2] By 1920 Spiller had joined the Labour Office of the League of Nations in Geneva.