Robert Hugh Carlin (February 10, 1901 – October 22, 1991) was a Canadian labour union organizer and politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1948.
He remained active as a union organizer, coordinating a major Labour Day demonstration against Teck Hughes in 1941.
[4] Over the next twenty years, a fierce battle was waged to take over Local 598 by Millard's United Steel Workers of America.
[5] Charles Millard, Ontario CCF leader Ted Jolliffe, and David Lewis did not directly accuse Carlin of being a communist.
The CCF lost the seat in the 1948 Ontario election, placing fourth to Welland Gemmell of the Progressive Conservatives.