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Wellington Roe (May 27, 1898 - February 3, 1952) was an American author and political activist with the American Labor Party.
Biography
editRoe was born
In 1937, he published The Tree Falls South, a novel about Kansas farmers during the Dust Bowl.[1] The following year he published Begin No Day, a novel about labor relations in the hatting industry in Connecticut.[2] Eleanor Roosevelt wrote that "the difficulties of labor and management are truthfully pictured" in the novel.[3] Roe was a member of the League of American Writers.[4] Roe attempted to discredit Jan Valtin, writing an expose for the newspaper PM that was never published.[5]
Roe became a member of Lodge 598 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen in 1944 but was expelled in 1946.[6] Despite his early support of railroad unions, he later became critical of labor unions, believing they were "often dictatorships in which labor bosses are the autocratic rulers of the dues-paying members".[7] His 1948 book Juggernaut expressed his views on unions through profiles of labor leaders like David Dubinsky and Samuel Gompers[8]. He resigned from the American Labor Party in 1948, stating that he could not support the candidacy of Henry Wallace.[9] He died in February 1952.[10]
Bibliography
edit- Begin No Day (1938)
- The Tree Falls South (1937)
References
edit- ^ Squire, Tom (May 30, 1937). "American Tragedy: 'The Tree Falls South' by Wellington Roe". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 48.
- ^ Mabry, Verne (July 2, 1938). "A Novelist's Solution of the Labor Problem". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. p. 9.
- ^ "My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, May 19, 1938". www2.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ Folsom, Franklin. Days of Anger, Days of Hope. p. 122.
- ^ Fleming, John V. The anti-communist manifestos : four books that shaped the Cold War. p. 133.
- ^ Welfare, United States Congress Senate Committee on Labor and Public (1947). Hearings, March 5-13, 1947 and appendix. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Richards, Lawrence (2008). Union-free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture. University of Illinois Press. p. 50. ISBN 9780252032714.
- ^ Rosenfarb, Joseph (January 22, 1949). "Labor - From IWW to Taft-Hartley". Saturday Review. 32 (4).
- ^ "ROE, AUTHOR, QUITS ALP; Says He Cannot Back Wallace, Attacks Communists in Party". The New York Times. 1948-09-03. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ "Noted Deaths in the News". The Independent. February 5, 1952. p. 16.