Notable Members
- Taffy Brown - Detroit Labor Journalist for Labor News Agency.
- Bill Davenport - Founding Director of the United Auto Workers Education Department.
- Adolph Kohn - Leading party member during the foundation period.
- J.A. "Jack" McDonald - Former IWW, Industrial Worker Editor, Socialist Party of Canada member and owner of McDonald's Books (founded 1926; 48 Turk St., San Francisco); McDonald (sometimes spelled "MacDonald") published a periodical entitled On the Record.
- Frank Marquart - Helped found the UAW, Education Director of the Briggs Local 313, Dissident against the Ruthers, author of "An Auto Workers' Journal"
- Sam Orner - Former IWW Organizer, organized the 1934 New York Taxi Strike, served as the inspiration for Lefty in "Waiting For Lefty."
- Bill Pritchard - Former SPC member, Dockworker, founding member of the One Big Union (Canada), Defendant in the Winnipeg General Strike Trial, Mayor of Burnaby, BC.
- Issac Rab - Active in Typographers Union as well as in Detroit and Boston socialist politics for 60 years.
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