Biography
Robert Woods was national secretary of the Auto Workers Union. The Daily Worker of July12,1930 names this organizer among more than sixty labor activists and strikers still jailed during the Detroit/Flint automobile organizing struggle. It reports that the jailed organizers had gone on hunger strike over their treatment. Individual admission, charge, sentence and release dates are unresolved.
Page 2's Detroit youth-auto conference report names national AWU secretary Robert Woods, explicitly just released from jail. This proves liberty by the September 12 report but does not supply an exact release day or identify whether the immediately preceding custody was the labor campaign or the later Farmington camp proceeding. Neither case is assigned an unsupported endpoint, and the earlier IWW Robert Woods namesake is not conflated. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n221-NAT-sep-13-1930-DW-LOC.pdf
A Detroit dispatch dated August 31 reports a sheriff’s raid at a Communist camp near Farmington, ten arrests, and criminal-syndicalism allegations including teaching children revolutionary songs. It identifies the Auto Workers Union secretary Woods among those arrested. This matches the existing organizer by office and location; G. Woods’s 1918 wartime case and other unrelated Woods profiles are not conflated. The source’s Sunday reference is not assigned a precise day without further corroboration, and no release or uninterrupted custody from the separately reported July detention is inferred.
Daily Worker, September 13, 1930; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
