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...Hall and some 500 delegates to a special convention were in Cleveland last week to save their union's ninth and last life. Provisional President Roland Jay Thomas, Vice Presidents Hall, Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer, Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, many another feudist professed the utmost anxiety to salvage what seceding President Homer Martin had left of their union when he split away last month (TIME, Feb. 6). But not one volunteered to sacrifice his job to that end. One & all were anxious to better themselves, preferably at the expense of fellow officers...
...these maneuvers was silent, saturnine Secretary-Treasurer Addes. Young Mr. Addes was put up for the presidency by Frankensteen, Mortimer & Co., who with the backing of U. A. W.'s small but potent Communist faction hoped to capitalize on his great popularity. After some tough talking by Murray & Hillman, Mr. Addes agreed to step aside if they would publicly indicate another choice. Loath to convict themselves of "dictatorship," Murray & Hillman at last pointed to amiable, amenable Provisional President Thomas, whom they had upped from a vice-presidency after Homer Martin seceded. Result: fewer dogs were left to fight over...
...crisis was precipitated when in a bitter session U. A. W.'s international executive board (18 of whose 24 members led by Vice President Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer opposed Martin) ousted President Martin as editor of the union paper, and canceled some of his administrative orders. He moaned to the press...
Then events followed fast. Homer Martin had requested such a convention, but he denounced it, charging that the terms of the call gerrymandered it against him. So he issued his own call for a convention and suspended 15 board members including Messrs. Frankensteen. Mortimer and potent little Walter Reuther of Detroit. They retaliated by impeaching him. He caught them napping. Early one morning he and a dozen huskies marched into U. A. W. headquarters, seized the union records and bank books, locked the offices, transferred everything to Mr. Martin's suite in the Eddystone Hotel...
...executive board session which erupted last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union...