Word: frankensteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
TIME states: "Frankensteen's own account of the battle, as given in detail to the Communist Daily Worker...
...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...