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...suspend any other officers in "emergencies." subject to appeal to the executive board. The problem of who the officers would be was neatly solved by increasing the number of vice presidents by two to make room for Mr. Martin's candidates, promising 30-year-old Detroit Organizer Richard Frankensteen, and President Roland J. Thomas of the Chrysler local. When this arrangement had been approved by factional caucuses and gratefully voted through by the convention, irrepressible Homer Martin exulted: "Our enemies are sad, our friends are glad, and with John L. Lewis labor marches...
Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
...know TIME is the only publication besides the Daily Worker which carried Frankensteen's statement. The Daily Worker, of course, carried it in full. But the impression given in your story that Frankensteen gave his detailed account exclusively to the Daily Worker is not true. The statement was mimeographed and given as a handout to all papers and wire services...
...sure it was not your intention to hint, however indirectly, that Frankensteen is a Communist and thus be guilty of a gross inaccuracy...
...Frankensteen has convinced me, through personal observation, that he surely has courage aplenty to make him a good communist, but does not see eye-to-eye with the Communist Daily Worker. LAWRENCE EMERY...