It's Hard to be Popular: The Marine Workers Industrial Union and the Coming of the Popular Front

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Notes

¹ This paragraph and the next are based on Charles Rubin, The Log of Rubin the Sailor, New York: International Publishers, 1973; details are found throughout chapters 1–10.

² The Communism in American Life series was subsidized by the Fund for the Republic between 1953 and 1961. Theodore Draper, American Communism and Soviet Russia, New York: Viking, 1960; Harvey Klehr, The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade, New York: Basic Books, 1984. Also Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism, New York: Basic Books, 1977; Robin Kelly, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990, pp.. xiii–xiv; Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grass Roots, 1928–1935, Chicago/Urbana: University of Illinois, 2007, pp. 6–8.

³ Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevitch Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism, Yale University Press, 1995, pp. 45–46.

⁴ For a full explanation of the creation of the Albion Hall group by “Eddy” see Vernon L. Pedersen, “Underfunded, Understaffed and Underground: the History of the San Francisco Bureau of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat,” Continuity, Spring 2003, 1–21.

⁵ Lessons of the San Francisco General Strike, Fond 515-1-3400, Roy Hudson, Report on Marine strike, 18 October 1934, pp. 38–39, 515-1-3446, Dear Clarence, undated, p. 288, Fond 515-1-3750, Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, Moscow (hereafter RGASPI).

⁶ “Dear Friends,” Confidential letter, 20 December 1934, pp. 9–17, 495-20-508, RGASPI.

⁷ “Supplementary Remarks on Marine, 20 December 1934, pp. 184–186, 515-1-3447, RGASPI.

⁸ This paragraph and the next taken from TUUL Buro Meeting and Report on Marine Situation, 24 December 1934, pp. 118–122, 515-1-3657, RGASPI.

⁹ Rubin, p. 170

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Unity, The new York Publication of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, 515-1-3916, RGASPI.

¹² This paragraph and next taken from “Supplementary Remarks on Marine, 20 December 1934, pp. 184–186, 515-1-3447, RGASPI.

¹³ Hudson to the PolBuro, pp. 123–124, RGASPI; Rubin, p. 171.

¹⁴ Minutes of the District Buro Meeting, District 12, p. 23, 515-1-3613, Hudson to the Polburo, 14 February 1935, pp. 124–126, RGASPI.

¹⁵ Hudson to the PolBuro, 14 February 1935, pp. 122–123, 515-1-3752, RAGASPI; Rubin, pp. 178–179.

¹⁶ This paragraph and the next three from “To All Marine Fractions,” 14 March 1935, p. 1–6, 515-1-3915, RGASPI.

¹⁷ “Lowlifer” to Hudson, 21 April 1935, pp. 9, 515-1-3915, RGASPI.

¹⁸ McCormack to Johnny, 24 April 1935, pp. 10, 515-1-3915, RGASPI.

¹⁹ Rubin, pp. 185–189.

²⁰ This paragraph and next taken are from Hudson, “Current Problems in Marine,” Report of the Trade Union Commission, 15 April 1935, pp. 4, 515-1-3770, RGASPI.

²¹ Darcy, January Report, 7 February 1935, pp. 15, 515-1-3875; Darcy to Central Committee, 23 February 1935, pp. 16, 515-1-3875, RGASPI

²² N.S. to Browder, p. 39–40; Stack to Hudson, 30 April 1935, p. 50–51, N.S. to Stachell, 1 June 1935, p. 84, 515-1-3873, RGASPI.

²³ Stack to Hudson, pp. 50–52, 515-1-3873, RGASPI.

²⁴ Minutes of the National Fraction Meeting, 19 July 1935, pp. 35–45, 515-1-3915, RGASPI.