Word: frankensteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local issues; they have become a judgment of the Martin administration. In each local auto workers were usually confronted with two slates: Progressive and Unity. (Both factions accuse each other of being false to their names.) The Progressives are led by Martin and his hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination of opposition forces led by Vice Presidents Ed Hall and Wyndham Mortimer and by the daring young tacticians of the sit-down strikes, Robert Travis, George Edwards, John Anderson and the fabulous Reuther Brothers, Walter, Roy and Victor...
...partisan primaries last month Maurice Sugar, counsel to the United Automobile Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...
Moreover, every one of C. I. O.'s five councilmanic candidates remained in the running. Maurice Sugar, U. A. W.'s attorney, placed seventh with 88,000. Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W.,'s assistant president and hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plant, was ninth with 83,000. Thirteenth was Tracy Doll, president of U. A. W.'s Hudson local, followed in 14th place by Walter Reuther, head of the big, tough West Side local. And Ray Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, squeezed into 17th place. One of John L. Lewis...
...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...
...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...