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In 1948, Davis and his wife moved to Hawaii. According to Davis’s autobiography, he was recommended by secret Communist Party USA members Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. Bridges, who Davis met at the Abraham Lincoln School, recommended that he contact Koji Ariyoshi, editor of the Honolulu Record.[10] Robeson had been in Hawaii the previous year for a concert organized by the communist controlled ILWU.[1]

Ariyoshi was one of the leaders of the Communist Party USA in Hawaii. His newspaper was subsidized by Bridges’ ILWU. In 1949, ILWU was expelled from the CIO because of its communist domination. The FBI files reveal that the first contact Davis made in Hawaii was not Ariyoshi but Jack Hall, the ILWU regional director, also an official of the Communist Party of Hawaii.

An FBI confidential informant reported that on July 18, 1948, the California State Convention of the Communist Party USA heard a report from Dwight James Freeman, who was being sent by the Party on the mainland to take over the Communist Party of Hawaii.

Honolulu Record
Freeman reported that the Communist Party in Hawaii planned to publish a new weekly newspaper. The first issue of the Honolulu Record was published on August 8, 1948 with Koji Ariyoshi as Editor. Davis, soon after his arrival, became a columnist for the paper.

When Davis became a columnist for the Honolulu Record, the newspaper was just beginning to document the imminent strike of the ILWU and the subsequent breaking up of the monopolistic power of the Big Five over the various immigrant labor groups, including the Japanese—who were the most powerful and radical— Chinese, Filipinos, and Portuguese.
Or in his own words, “Not long after arriving in Hawaii, I began writing a regular weekly column for the Honolulu Record, supported mainly by the ILWU membership, and was openly friendly with its leadership.”

This was not a career move, since “The Record, of course, was not financially able to add me to its payroll.” But Davis felt an affinity with Koji Ariyoshi and Ed Rohrbough, “who were its editorial mainstays”, and “since the Record was created to provide an alternative perspective to the news, Davis found it to be the medium through which he could critique the socio-political structure of the Territory of Hawai’i and keep in touch with the common people. When Ariyoshi offered him a column, which became known as “Frankly Speaking,” therefore, Davis couldn’t resist”.[11]

Helen Canfield Davis - originally Helen Canfield Peck (1923-1998) was the second wife of Frank Marshall Davis.

Communist Party
Helen Canfield Davis, was a member of the Paul Robeson Club of the Communist Party USA, in Chicago and her 1947 Communist Party USA card number was 62109.

Marriage to Frank Marshall Davis

Davis and Canfield with first child, HawaiiDavis’ wife, Helen Canfield Davis was from Libertyville Illinois. She was white and 18 years younger than Davis. It was money from her trust fund, which came to her in the fall of 1948, which enabled the couple to move Hawaii.[1]

The couple married in 1946 and divorced in 1970.

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