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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Mike Ross]] was a British-born trade unionist.<br />
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Ross was born in London. He fought in World War One, during which he was caught in a gas attack.<ref name="Morgan287">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.287.</ref><br />
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Ross later joined the Communist Party, and visited Moscow with [[Jane Tabrisky]], where he worked for the Soviet State Publishing Office for a year.<ref name="Morgan287">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.287.</ref><br />
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Ross concealed his Communist involvement when he moved to the United States in 1933 and applied for citizenship.<ref name="Morgan287">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.287.</ref><br />
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Ross ran the International Committee of the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] from its formation in the early 1950s.<ref>Ted Morgan, ''A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster'', Random House, 1999, p.223.</ref><br />
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When the [[CIO]] merged with the [[AFL]] in 1955, Ross was appointed deputy to [[George Brown (AFL-CIO)|George Brown]] a head of the new [[AFL-CIO]] Department of Intrnational Affairs.<ref name="Morgan287">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.287.</ref> Although discomfited by this appointment [[Jay Lovestone]] had the advantage of knowing about Ross's concealed Communist past.<br />
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In 1957 Ross succeeded Brown as head of the International Affairs Department, although [[Jay Lovestone]] continued to play a more active role in international work from his New York office.<ref name="Morgan289">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.2870.</ref><br />
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Ross died in December 1963. Lovestone succeeded him as head of the International Affairs Department.<ref name="Morgan335">Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.335.</ref><br />
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[[Category:Trade Unionists|Ross, Mike]]</div>Tom Griffin