Wellington Roe

[2] In 1924, Roe was involved in a real estate partnership in Fort Lauderdale, where he gained a reputation as the "gaudiest local character of the boom".

[5] The following year he published Begin No Day, a novel about labor relations in the hatting industry in Connecticut.

[8] Roe attempted to discredit Jan Valtin, writing an expose of him for the newspaper PM that was never published.

[16] His 1948 book Juggernaut expressed these views on unions through profiles of labor leaders like David Dubinsky and Samuel Gompers.

[17] He resigned from the American Labor Party in 1948, stating that he could not support the candidacy of Henry Wallace.