Roy Hudson
{{Short description|20th-century Communist Party USA national executive in charge of labor}}
Roy Hudson, also known as Roy B. Hudson, served on the national executive board (also called the national committee
{{cite journal
| first1 = Paul
| last1 = Saba
| title = Reformism vs. Revolutionary Struggle in the Labor Movement
| journal = Proletarian Cause
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1/cl-reformism.htm
| date = September 1972
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}) of the Communist Party USA
{{cite book
| first1 = John Early
| last1 = Haynes
| first2 = Harvey
| last2 = Klehr
| first3 = Fridrikh
| last3 = Firsov
| title = The Secret World of American Communism
| publisher = Yale University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mcHJCCUcm-oC
| pages = 301 (Edith), 302 (Roy B. Hudson), 319 (Aubrey)
| date = 1995
| isbn = 0300137834
| access-date = 25 July 2022}} and national trade union director
{{cite book
|date=28 May 1954
|access-date=25 July 2022
|title=Investigation of Communist Activities in the Pacific Northwest
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QepRAQAAIAAJ
|publisher=US GPO
{{cite journal
| first = Ernest
| last = Lund
| author-link =
| title = Future Prospects for Progressive Group
| journal = Labor Action
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/erber/1944/10/analysis2.htm
| date = October 1944
| access-date = 27 July 2022}} and trade union expert.
{{cite journal
| first = Anthony
| last = Massini
| author-link =
| title = C.P. Begins New Lynch Campaign in Cleveland
| journal = The Militant
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/breitman/1942/03/cleveland.htm
| date = 14 March 1942
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}
Career
With Al Lannon,
{{cite web
| first = John Earl
| last = Haynes
| title = American Communism and Anticommunism: A Historian's Bibliography and Guide to the Literature
| publisher = JohnEarlHaynes.org
| url = http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page94.html#d214
| date = 18 February 2009
| access-date = 27 January 2021}} Hudson helped found and then became national secretary of the Marine Workers Industrial Union (MWIU) at its founding in 1930.
{{cite book
| first1 = Howard
| last1 = Kimeldorf
| title = Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront
| publisher = University of California Press
| url = http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6d5nb46p/
| pages = 219
| date = 1988
| access-date = 27 January 2021}} Earlier, in 1927, CPUSA member George Mink traveled to the USSR, attended the fourth congress of the Profintern, and returned to the US as the Profintern's representative of a Transport Workers International Committee for Propaganda and Agitation (TWICP&A) to organize maritime workers in the US. Working with William Z. Foster's Trade Union Educational League (TUEL). Mink established a Marine Workers Progressive League (MWPL) by 1928. During the CPUSA's factional in-fighting 1928-1929 between followers of James P. Cannon, Jay Lovestone, and Foster,
{{Cite book
| first = Whittaker
| last = Chambers
| author-link = Whittaker Chambers
| title = Witness
| publisher = Random House
| location = New York
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=b1F3AAAAMAAJ&q=editions:97pjkJV4vkcC
| pages = 799
| date = May 1952
| isbn = 9780895269157
| access-date = 29 December 2019}} Mink laid low. When Joseph Stalin appointed Foster as head of the CPUSA in 1929, Mink continued his efforts with marine workers.
{{cite journal
| first = Vernon L.
| last = Pedersen
| title = George Mink, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, and the Comintern in America
| journal = Labor History
| url = https://doi.org/10.1080/713684493
| pages = 310–312
| date = 2000
| volume = 41
| issue = 3
| doi = 10.1080/713684493
| s2cid = 153622686
| access-date = 15 June 2021| url-access = subscription}} On April 26–27, 1930, a Marine Workers' League of New York (itself organized in 1928 by the Trade Union Unity League or "TUUL") called a convention that created the Marine Workers' Industrial Union of the USA. This national convention followed coastal conventions held during 1928–1930. The convention adopted a constitution,
{{cite book
| title = Constitution and Preamble, Marine Workers Industrial Union
| publisher = Marine Workers Industrial Union
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_w3ztgAACAAJ
| pages = 18
| date = 1930
| access-date = 15 June 2021}} openly supported the USSR, and elected three delegates to attend the fifth world congress of the Red International of Labor Unions or "Profintern" (itself an arm of the Communist International or "Comintern").
{{cite book
| author = N. Sparks
| title = The Struggle of the Marine Workers
| publisher = International Pamphlets (International Publishers)
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/international-pamphlets/n05-1930-Struggle-Marine-Workers-N-Sparks.pdf
| pages = 49–50, 59–61, 63
| date = 1930
| access-date = 14 June 2021}} The MWIU openly affiliated with TUUL.
{{cite web
| title = Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities
| publisher = USGPO
| url = https://archive.org/details/investigationofu11unit/page/n9/mode/2up
| page = 6458 (Curran, MWIU, Hudson), 6478–9 (MWIU, Hudson), 6515 (Jones), 6532 (Marine Workers Voice, affiliation)
| date = 1940
| access-date = 14 June 2021}} According to another source, MWIU decided against TUUL and decided instead to affiliate with the Profintern's Red International of Transport Workers
{{cite news
| title = Opening of the Profintern Congress
| newspaper = International Press Correspondence (Inprecor)
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/inprecor/1922/v02n109-dec-07-1922-Inprecor.pdf
| pages = 892
| date = 7 December 1922
| access-date = 15 June 2021}} via an International Seamen and Harbors Workers Union (ISH),
{{cite book
| first = Holger
| last = Weiss
| chapter = The International of Seamen and Harbour Workers – A Radical Global Labour Union of the Waterfront or a Subversive World-Wide Web?
| title = International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939
| url = https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004324824_008
| pages = 256–317
| date = 1995
| doi = 10.1163/9789004324824_008
| isbn = 9789004324824
| access-date = 14 June 2021}} based in Hamburg, Germany. During the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, the International Seamen's Union and the Marine Transport Workers (MTW) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) joined the strike, but the "Communist-dominated MWIU undercut the strike" by scabbing.
{{cite journal
| first = Jon
| last = Bekken
| title = Marine Transport Workers IU 510 (IWW): Direct Action Unionism
| journal = Libertarian Labor Review
| url = https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jon-bekken-marine-transport-workers-iu-510-iww?v=1608611629
| page = 12
| date = 1995
| access-date = 14 June 2021}} In June 1934, Hudson, as MWIU general secretary, toured West Coast ports.
{{cite news
| title = Roy Hudson, MWIU Head, Tours Coast
| newspaper = Western Worker
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1934/v3-n27-31-jul-1934.pdf
| page = 1
| date = 2 July 1934
| access-date = 14 June 2021}} In 1935, Hudson, a ranking MWIU official, dissolved the union (then, with 14,000 members) without a vote, and the International Seamen's Union of America succeeded to it. In July 1936, Hudson spoke at the CPUSA's ninth national convention at the Manhattan Opera House on "the struggles of the seamen and the need for a maritime industrial union."
{{cite journal
| first = Joseph
| last = Freeman
| author-link = Joseph Freeman (writer)
| title = Through Liberty to Socialism
| journal = New Masses
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1936/v20n02-jul-07-1936-NM.pdf
| page = 10
| date = 2 July 1934
| access-date = 14 June 2021}}
During the 1936 New York state election, Hudson ran on the CPUSA ticket for New York's at-large congressional seat.
In the late 1930s, Hudson "lectured on the importance of working in trade unions" at the Los Angeles People's Education Center.
{{cite book
|date=1953
|access-date=27 July 2022
|title=Investigation of Communist Activities in the San Francisco Area
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MTgWAAAAIAAJ
|publisher=US GPO
|page=3087}}
In November 1938, the Socialist Appeal characterized Hudson as the "Stalinist behind-the-scenes-men at the convention" of the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW).
{{cite journal
| first = BJ
| last = Widick
| author-link =
| title = CIO Convention Rubber Stamps Lewis Machine
| journal = Socialist Appeal
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/widick/1938/11/cio-conv2.htm
| date = November 1938
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}
In October 1939, Hudson championed the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) over the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and urged US workers to keep out of the "imperialist war" (World War II), following announcement of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939.
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Paths of Labor's United Action
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/roy-hudson.pdf
| date = October 1939
| access-date = 24 July 2022}} (In August 1941, Trotskyist David Coolidge wrote that the Hudson (a "Stalinist") had written the "party line" (i.e., the Communist Party line) for the UAW, an about-face following the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia ("Operation Barbarossa").
{{cite journal
| first = David
| last = Coolidge
| author-link =
| title = The Stalinists Swallow Their Tail
| journal = Labor Action
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/mckinney/1941/08/cpline.htm
| date = 4 August 1941
| access-date = 24 July 2022}})
In July 1941, Hudson voiced CPUSA support for then-current UAW president R. J. Thomas and secretary George Addes.
{{cite journal
| first = David
| last = Coolidge
| author-link =
| title = With the Labor Unions – On the Picket Line
| journal = Labor Action
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/mckinney/1941/08/cpline.htm
| date = 27 July 1941
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
On October 31, 1943, during a CIO convention in Philadelphia, the FBI recorded conversations of Hudson, CPUSA labor secretary. Hudson met with CIO union leaders (including Harry Bridges). On November 5, they heard identified the voice of a man whom Hudson instructed on Party demands for changes in the CIO platform: the name was Lee Pressman. Pressman's meetings continued with Hudson into September 1944.
{{cite book
| first = Gilbert J.
| last = Gall
| title = Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO
| publisher = SUNY Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xCYoLnaWXdoC
| pages = 6–12 (birth, childhood, schooling), 14–16 (Harvard), 17–18 (Chadbourne), 18–20 (IJA), 20 (Witt), 21 (Liebman, Blumenthal & Levy), 23–34 (AAA, Abt, Bacharach), 32 (skill), 34–43 (Ware Group), 43–44 (NYC), 46–231 (CIO years 1936–1948), 60–62 (Peters, Chambers recommendations), 63–71 (Flint), 92–93 (TWU), 114–115 (NLG radicals), 125 (CBS radio Jan 1940), 135–136 (NDMB and NAA strike), 175–178 (Bridges v. Wixon), 183–184 (CIO-PAC), 187–189 (FBI CPUSA), 192–197 (WFTU), 209 (NBC June 1946), 213–215 (IUMMSW), 264 (Comrade Big), 302–303 (MEBA)
| date = 1998
| isbn = 9780791441039
| access-date = 5 September 2017}}
In May 1944, Hudson's name appeared as a vice president among the officers of the Communist Political Association (CPA), along with Earl Browder, William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, Eugene Dennis, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, James W. Ford, Gilbert Green, Benjamin J. Davis Jr., Morris Childs, Robert G. Thompson, William Schneiderman, John Williamson, and Charles Krumbein.
{{cite book
| title = Constitution of the Communist Political Association
| publisher = Communist Political Association
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/cpa-constitution.pdf
| date = May 1944
| access-date = 27 July 2022}} On June 2, 1945, Hudson abstained from voting on the demise of the (CPA).
{{cite news
| title = The present situation and the next tasks
| newspaper = Daily Worker
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1946-1956/situation-tasks.htm
| date = 11 June 1945
| access-date = 24 July 2022}} Shortly thereafter, Hudson, who "has occupied a leading role in directing activities in various large unions" affiliated with the CIO, reversed his abstention and voted to change CPA "revolutionary" policy to adhere to "aggressive class struggle" in line with Stalinism.
{{cite news
| title = Communist Drive in Unions Seen
| newspaper = New York Times
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/06/archives/communist-drive-in-cio-unions-seen-hudson-labor-leader-concurs-in.html
| page = 14
| date = 6 June 1945
| access-date = 25 July 2022}} On June 11, Trotskyist Albert Glotzer (writing as "Albert Gates") denounced Hudson as "the party’s commissar, who enforced the Browder 'line' in the union movement."
{{cite journal
| first = Albert
| last = Glotzer
| author-link = Albert Glotzer
| title = Labor Beware the Latest Communist 'Turn'
| journal = Labor Action
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/glotzer/1945/06/cpturn.htm
| date = 11 June 1945
| access-date = 24 July 2022}} In July 1945, Hudson characterized his leadership in the CPA as follows: "I went along because, my inadequate grasp of Marxism prevented me from understanding that something was fundamentally wrong."
{{cite journal
| first = Albert
| last = Gates
| author-link = Albert Glotzer
| title = More Confessions by CP Misleaders
| journal = Labor Action
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/glotzer/1945/07/cp.htm
| date = 30 July 1945
| access-date = 27 July 2022}} In March 1948, ex-CPUSA publishers of The Spark published "Three Letters on Opportunism" about the fall of the CPA and quoted Hudson from a 1946 letter as writing "However, when I raise serious objections, and they are ignored or when there is no effort or when there is an inadequate effort to explain and convince, or when my motives are challenged – then I will continue to protest, although perhaps in the future, I will find a better way of doing it than abstaining from voting."
{{cite journal
| title = Three Letters on Opportunism
| journal = The Spark
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/spark/19480301.htm
| date = 3 March 1948
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}
In January 1945, Hudson attacked the UAW's Walter Reuther and other "Trotskyite" leaders in their fight against a no-strike pledge.
{{cite journal
| first = David
| last = Coolidge
| author-link =
| title = Mass Action
| journal = Labor Action
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/mckinney/1945/01/mass1.htm
| date = 27 July 1941
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
In the 1950s, George Andersen of the San Francisco-based law firm of Gladstein, Andersen, Leonard & Sibbett represented Hudson as well as Donald Niven Wheeler, Paul Schlipf, and Paul Chown.
{{cite book
| title = Investigation of Communist Activities in the San Francisco Area
| publisher = USGPO
| url = https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt138n97wg&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text
| pages = 3138–3152 (Wheeler), 3159–3184 (Hudson), 3355–3367 (Schlipf), 3432–3444 (Chown)
| date = 1953
| access-date = 5 June 2022}}
In 1951, Hudson's name came up during House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on Communist infiltration in Hollywood. Roy M. Brewer, a IATSE leader, described Irving Henschel as "lead of the Communist faction in 1944" and "member of the Rank and File Committee which attempted to set up a revolt in our organization during the 1945 strike in Hollywood." When Henschel contacted CPUSA official Max Weiss in Ohio, Weiss reported Henschel's conduct to Roy Hudson in New York.
{{cite book
|date=1951
|access-date=14 July 2020
|title=Communist Activities Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First-second Sessions
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGmaBXHKOgUC
|publisher=US GPO
|pages= 482–483 (Ohio), 519 (report), 525 (mention)}}
In May 1954, during HUAC testimony, ex-Communist Elizabeth Boggs Cohen identified Hudson as "national trade union director." In July 1954, during HUAC testimony, ex-CIO press director Len De Caux refused to answer whether he was acquainted with Roy Hudson and even CIO colleague Lee Pressman.
{{cite book
|date=8 July 1954
|access-date=25 July 2022
|title=Investigation of Communist Influence in the Field of Publications
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QepRAQAAIAAJ
|publisher=US GPO
|page=5869}}
Personal life
Hudson married Edith Embrey. According to ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, Hudson's girlfriend was Andre (or Ondra) Embrey, a Hungarian-American who worked at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and whose roommate succeeded him as courier between J. Peters and Ware Group members.
In April 1934, Joseph North characterized Hudson, among other "lieutenants of revolution" as "a powerful, driving personality, steeled by years of proletarian experience and organizational activity into a dynamic leader."
{{cite journal
| first = Joseph
| last = North
| title = The Communist Party Convention
| journal = New Masses
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1934/v11n03-apr-17-1934-NM.pdf
| page = 8
| date = April 1934
| access-date = 27 July 2022}} In 1940, North referred to him, writing "They have met men like Roy Hudson in the union halls."
{{cite journal
| first = Joseph
| last = North
| title = The People, Yes
| journal = New Masses
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1940/v35n13-jun-18-1940-NM.pdf
| page = 7
| date = 18 June 1940
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}
Hudson appears in the correspondence of fellow CPUSA member Samuel Adams Darcy.
{{cite web
| title = Scope and Content: Guide to the Sam Adams Darcy Papers TAM.124
| publisher = Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
| url = http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_124/scopecontent.html
| date = June 5, 2014
| access-date = July 11, 2016}} In 1972, Joseph Starobin described Hudson as "a former sailor with unimpeachable proletarian credentials."
{{cite book
| first = Joseph
| last = Starobin
| author-link =
| title = American Communism in Crisis, 1943-1957
| publisher = University of California Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kTgQAQAAMAAJ
| page = 85
| date = 1972
| isbn = 9780674022751
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}
Works
Hudson wrote mostly pamphlets published by Workers Library Publishers as well as articles for the CPUSA's theoretical journal The Communist and its successor Political Affairs.
;Books (Pamphlets)
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Shipowners Plot Against Spanish Democracy
| publisher = Workers Library
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=deHAQgAACAAJ
| date = 1936
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Who Are the Reds?
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VQyMCPvOa-wC
| date = 1937
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
- True Americans: A Tribute to American Maritime Workers who Fought for World Democracy in the Trenches of Spain (1939)
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = True Americans: A Tribute to American Maritime Workers who Fought for World Democracy in the Trenches of Spain
| publisher = Waterfront Section, Communist Party
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aw3crtLgyH8C
| date = 1939
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = True Americans: A Tribute to American Maritime Workers who Fought for World Democracy in the Trenches of Spain
| publisher = Waterfront Section, Communist Party
| url = http://spanishsky.dk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/trueamericans_royhudson.pdf
| date = 1939
| access-date = 24 April 2024}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The C.I.O. Convention and National Unity
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dfqANAEACAAJ
| date = 1941
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Growth of the Trade Unions
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2j9KNAEACAAJ
| date = 1941
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
- Trends in the Labor Movement (1941){{cite book |last=Hudson |first=Roy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pb9PAQAAMAAJ |title=Trends in the Labor Movement |date=1941 |publisher=Workers Library Publishers |author-link=Roy Hudson |access-date=24 July 2022}}
- Two Questions on Winning the War (1942)
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Two Questions on Winning the War
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://www.bolerium.com/pages/books/32839/roy-hudson/two-questions-on-winning-the-war
| date = 1942
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Communists and the Trade Unions: The Question Posed by the British Trade Union Congress and the C.I.O. Shipyard Workers Convention and Its Answer
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eS9QAQAAMAAJ
| date = 1943
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Communists and the Trade Unions
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061537548/pages
| date = 1943
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first1 = Earl
| last1 = Browder
| author-link1 = Earl Browder
| first2 = Eugene
| last2 = Dennis
| author-link2 = Eugene Dennis
| first3 = Roy
| last3 = Hudson
| author-link3 = Roy Hudson
| first4 = John
| last4 = Williamson
| author-link4 = John Williamson (communist)
| title = Shall the Communist Party Change Its Name?
| publisher = National Committee of the Communist Party
| url = https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735061659409
| date = February 1944
| access-date = 27 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Post-war Jobs for Veterans, Negroes, Women
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r8tRAQAAMAAJ
| date = 1944
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite book
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Post-war Jobs for Veterans, Negroes, Women
| publisher = Workers Library Publishers
| url = https://lccn.loc.gov/a45002552
| date = 1944
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
;Articles
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Rooting the Party on the Waterfront
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v14n12-dec-1935-communist.pdf
| date = December 1935
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Fight of the Seamen for Militant Unionism
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v15n03-mar-1936-communist.pdf
| date = March 1936
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Lessons of the Maritime
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v16n03-mar-1937-The-Communist.pdf
| date = March 1937
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = New Developments in Organizing the Marine Industry
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v16n11-nov-1937-The-Communist.pdf
| date = November 1937
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Struggle for Trade Union Unity
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v17n03-mar-1938-The-Communist-OCR.pdf
| date = March 1938
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Charter of Party Democracy
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v17n08-aug-1938-The-Communist-OCR.pdf
| date = August 1938
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Defeat the Foes of Labbr Unity!
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v17n10-oct-1938-The-Communist-OCR.pdf
| date = October 1938
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The A. F. of L. Convention and Tasks for Achieving Unity
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v17n12-dec-1938-The-Communist-OCR.pdf
| date = December 1938
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
- "The Paths of Labor's United Action," The Communist (1939)
- "For a Greater Vote and a Stronger Party!" The Communist (1940)
{{cite journal
| first = Roy
| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = For a Greater Vote and a Stronger Party!
| journal = The Communist
| url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/communist/v19n08-aug-1940-The-Communist-OCR.pdf
| date = August 1940
| access-date = 24 July 2022}}
{{cite journal
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| title = The Real Reasons for Trade Union Progress
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{{cite journal
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| title = The Trend in Labor's Ranks
| journal = The Communist
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{{cite journal
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| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Browder Shows the Way Out
| journal = The Communist
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{{cite journal
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| title = Labor's Great Responsibilities and Possibilities
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{{cite journal
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| date = May 1942
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{{cite journal
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| title = The C.I.O. Convention
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{{cite journal
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| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Party Recruiting Campaign in Michigan
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| date = April 1943
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{{cite journal
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| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Forge World Labor Unity!
| journal = The Communist
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| date = May 1943
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{{cite journal
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| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Crucial Problems Before Labor Today
| journal = The Communist
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| date = July 1943
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{{cite journal
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| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = The Auto Workers' Convention
| journal = The Communist
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{{cite journal
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| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Teheran and the Wage Policy Issue
| journal = The Communist
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| date = February 1944
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{{cite journal
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| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Two Conventions of Labor
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{{cite journal
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| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Labor's Victory Wage Policies
| journal = Political Affairs
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| date = April 1945
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{{cite journal
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| last = Hudson
| author-link = Roy Hudson
| title = Speech by Roy Hudson
| journal = Political Affairs
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| date = 1946
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_080/dscref13.html Guide to the Daniel Bell Research Files on U.S. Communism, Socialism, and the Labor Movement TAM.080]
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