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...himself. But an intimate henchman, Allan S. Haywood, C.I.O.'s national director of organization, did. From a hotel room Haywood proceeded to pull strings. There were plenty to pull. Big and lusty as it was, U.A.W. was split by factionalism. On one side were Walter Reuther and Dick Frankensteen, who were determined to purge U.A.W. of Communists and oust wavy-haired, black-browed George Addes from his job as secretary-treasurer. On the other side was saturnine Mr. Addes and some shadowy figures in dark corners...
Murray sent hefty Richard Frankensteen, national director of U.A.W.'s aviation division, to Inglewood, where Frankensteen broadcast a warning to workers to go back to work or forfeit affiliation with the C.I.O. Said he: "The infamous agitation, the vicious maneuvering of the Communist Party is apparent...
...When Frankensteen tried to address a workers' mass meeting, held in a bean field opposite the huge plant, a cell of hecklers milled around the speaker's stand, waved sketches of rats, jackasses and skunks at him, booed him off the platform. Taking to the air again, he suspended his own assistant, Communistic oldtime Labor Leader Wyndham Mortimer, three international organizers and all officers of the brash young local. Strike leaders decided to defy the President, keep the plant strike-shut. They were backed by local and State C.I.O. groups, by Harry Bridges' longshoremen, by their...
...faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...
Bennett got a cracked head in a fight outside the Rouge plant in 1932, in which four jobless marchers were killed. Brutally beaten by Ford agents were two other men who are now in the very front rank of U. A. W.-Richard Frankensteen and Walter Reuther (whose plan for making airplane parts in auto factories was projected last winter). Brutal beatings took place in Dallas...