Dangerous Scot : The life and work of an American "undesirable" / by John Williamson

This book says that it has eight pages of photographs but it does not.

"Prison authorities took his notes as they were written and released them only after his death. Edited and arranged from these notes, this book makes fascinating reading." -- Benjamin J. Davis.

Foreword / Gus Hall --

Author's preface -- 1. From Scotland to America -- 2. Labor movement in Seattle -- 3. I make my choice -- 4. Young workers confront gompers -- 5. Journeys to Moscow -- 6. A united party is created -- 7. Chicago: Struggles of the unemployed -- 8. Auto is organized -- 9. Akron becomes a union town -- 10. The little steel strike -- 11. Communists and World War II -- 12. Division in the CIO -- 13. Surrender to Taft-Hartley -- 14. Prosecution and imprisonment -- 15. From prison to deportation -- 16. Return to my native land.

"The appex of [Williamson's] activity came during the 1930's when as a Communist leader in Chicago and Cleveland he helped organize the unemployed in their struggles for relief and then went on to give rank-and-file leadership to the mass organizing drives that led to the establishment of the new industrial unions in rubber, auto and steel. His personal account throws new light upon the labor upheaval of that depression decade and upon the role of Communists in building the base of the CIO and opening the doors to mass recruitment of black workers into the new unions. This autobiography also provides new data on the postwar division within the CIO and the role played in it by the Taft-Hartley anti-labor act. In his concluding chapters, Williamson tells of the prosecution under the Smith Act, his prison life and his deportation. Finally, he relates how he and his family decided to turn his forced exile in England into a new chapter of activity in the same cause to which he devoted his life in the United States. No student of the swift changes of the past decades can afford to miss this book." -- From the dust-jacket.