Roy M. Brewer

(1909- ) born at Cairo, Hall County, lived in Grand Island. Labor union official, noted for serving from 1945 to 1953 as international representative in Hollywood for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, gained prominence for removing Communist elements from the union and in the large effort to expose Communists in all branches of the motion picture industry; was officer for Allied Artists Productions, served as final arbiter between federal unions and their government employees during mid-1980s. Consult Current Biography (1953) 91-93 and American Legion Magazine, December 1956, pp. 14-15, 46-49 and Biographical Dictionary of American Labor (Greenwood Press, 1984) 125-126 and Los Angeles Times, March 24, 1985, Part II, pp. 8, 10 and Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced The American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s (Forum/Prima, 1998).

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