Robert Hugh Carlin 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.
12 Facts About Robert Carlin
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Robert Carlin was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
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Robert Carlin joined the Western Federation of Miners as a union representative, and was involved in the 1919 Cobalt Miners' Strike.
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Robert Carlin later began working at Teck Hughes in Kirkland Lake, but was fired in 1940 along with 36 other miners.
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Robert Carlin remained active as a union organizer, coordinating a major Labour Day demonstration against Teck Hughes in 1941.
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Robert Carlin subsequently moved to Sudbury, where he became president of Mine Mill Local 598, and won election to the Legislative Assembly in the 1943 election and was re-elected in the 1945 election.
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Robert Carlin was loyal to his union, Local 598, putting him in conflict with CCF establishment in both Toronto and Ottawa.
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Charles Millard, Ontario CCF leader Ted Jolliffe, and David Lewis did not directly accuse Robert Carlin of being a communist.
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In essence, Robert Carlin became a casualty of Steel's plans to raid Mine, Mill.
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Robert Carlin, running as an independent, finished a very close second.
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Robert Carlin then stood as a Farmer-Labour candidate in the 1949 federal election in the federal riding of Sudbury, losing to Liberal candidate Leo Gauthier but placing ahead of Willard Evoy, the CCF candidate.
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Robert Carlin subsequently returned to labour organizing in Sudbury, becoming a bargaining agent for the Steelworkers Local 6500 from 1962 until his retirement.