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...members who are more concerned with Depression II than with their officers' funds, the issues seemed remote indeed. President Martin & board found Vice Presidents Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed. Hall guilty of conspiring with Stalinist Communists to wreck U. A. W., expelled them.* Convicted and suspended on the lesser charge of opposing the Martin clique's group insurance plan was Vice President Walter Wells...
...year ago the United Automobile Workers, their youthful ex-preacher president, Homer Martin, their strapping and scrappy organizer, Richard Frankensteen, were stars in the drama of renascent U. S. Labor and in the crown of John L. Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half...
Heart of U.A.W.'s difficulties is the struggle between the Martin Progressive faction, which believes in strong centralized authority, and the Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit...
When they met again, hotheaded Homer Martin had obviously failed to be converted. Standing on his rights as U.A.W.'s elected president and cocking a rebellious snook at John L. Lewis himself, Mr. Martin summarily dismissed four of his vice presidents, including the Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer, and Secretary-Treasurer George Addes. He told six restive board members they would lay themselves "wide open to suspension" if they left the meeting. As one, the six walked out, leaving President Martin & friends in command of a union now publicly split...
...growing Unity opposition, the U. A. W.'s difficulties are due mainly to inept leadership by Martin and Frankensteen. Unity leaders were alarmed to hear that Homer Martin had agreed to further restrictions on G.M. grievance committees, which even last year functioned none too smoothly, but their chief complaint is Martin's disregard of democratic procedure, typified for them by his failure to submit the G. M. supplementary agreement to the membership for ratification. Last week, though Unity leaders disclaimed any part in it, evidence was accumulating of a drive to oust Martin before...