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...snubbed Wyndham Mortimer, veteran first vice president and leader of the opposition, by upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full...
...voice vote objected to three of his pet proposals: to make the conventions biennial rather than annual, to require a 50% vote of the membership (rather than of five locals from three different States) to call special conventions, to decrease the delegate representation of big locals, i.e., the Flint and West Detroit strongholds of Unity Lieutenants Robert Travis and Walter Reuther. Mr. Martin announced that an even more high-handed proposal, to give the president power to dismiss other executive officers, would be returned to committee...
...subsidiary had infringed on Standard of Indiana's trademark, "S.O.," granted an injunction prohibiting the New Jersey company from using in 14 Midwestern States any trademark derived from the words "Standard Oil." C. WThile automobile men talked of impending higher prices, off the assembly line in Flint, Mich, rolled the 13.ooo.oooth Chevrolet, just eleven months and two days after the 12,000.oooth. This was the second shortest million-unit period in the company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October...
Progenitors. On the first evening of the Jamboree one of its three compulsory functions was held.*Some 28,000 boys and Scout Masters crowded around the base of the Washington Monument for the lighting of the Camp Fire. Up stepped wizened little Daniel Carter Beard with trusty flint and steel, struck the spark which lit a torch which ignited two big campfires. Old Dan Beard had every right to that honor. He has worn out more deerskin shirts and done more for boys than any magazine illustrator now alive. At 87 he is still spry and alert, throws hatchets...
...Governor Murphy's State, President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers also ordered a "purge," removing three Flint organizers and transferring an-other "because of unauthorized sit-downs." General Motors has had more than 200 "wildcat" strikes since it signed its contract last winter, and G. M. President William Knudsen announced last week that he would not negotiate a new contract until U.A.W. agreed to definite penalties for violations by its unruly members. Since the U.A.W. record is held against all C.I.O. unions. John L. Lewis dispatched John Brophy from his own staff to survey Homer Martin...