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Into this sorry mess stepped Michigan's senile, godly, sometimes cunning Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. To Lansing he summoned Chrysler's President K. T. Keller and Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped...
...President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers, Chrysler's Vice President Herman Weckler also addressed an open letter: "What you are doing is the old camouflage, Frankensteen, and you know it. . . .Now you want a new contract and we are willing to negotiate with you. So bring...
...Moonshine!" roared Mr. Frankensteen. "We are not trying to run your plants, and you know it. We are insisting only that in your operation of the plants you shall not treat your employes as just some more machinery to be used, burnt up and then thrown on the scrap heap...
...Michigan law requires, Mr. Frankensteen filed five-day notice of intent to call formal strikes in all Chrysler plants. With this club bulging his pocket, he then accepted Mr. Weckler's invitation to negotiate a new contract (the old one expired Sept...
...executive board (which collectively outranks President Thomas) the delegates elected Vice President Richard Frankensteen and a majority composed of other men who may be expected to buck C. I. O. direction. Places for Vice Presidents Wyndham Mortimer on the board and Ed Hall at national headquarters were also arranged. Thus the feudists who all but gutted the union are still within fighting distance of each other...