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...Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
Thus consigned to Coventry, far from the Michigan battleground for votes in the union elections next year, Richard Frankensteen sighed: "There never was any question of whether I would go. There is work to be done out there...
...Philip Murray & Sidney Hillman, last week finished the first of several repair jobs on the United Automobile Workers of America. When President Homer Martin recently lost control of U. A. W. and tried to fix up his machine by throwing out four of its most important cogs-Messrs Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, George Addes-John L. Lewis sent Mechanics Murray and Hillman to Detroit to interfere. There they persuaded Mr. Martin to let them get up on the driver's seat, one on each side of him, to watch his driving (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, having...
Having expelled four rebellious union officers (Vice Presidents Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall; Secretary-Treasurer George Addes) and suspended a fifth (Vice President Walter Wells), Mr. Martin was faced by the unpleasant discovery that a majority of U. A. W.'s 375,000 claimed members supported the punished five. U. A. W. was ready to split in two. A sample of how costly jurisdictional strikes could prove in the automobile industry at the start of the 1939 production season was meanwhile provided in Detroit: soon after workers struck in Briggs Manufacturing Co. (against "speedup"), 7,000 employes...
...Hillman were empowered: 1) to "review" the expulsions, decide whether they still think the ousted officers should be reinstated; 2) with Homer Martin and one other board member, to settle future disputes. This arrangement is to continue until next year, when at the union's biennial convention Messrs, Frankensteen, Mortimer, et al. will have a chance to complete the demolition of Homer Martin. C. I. O. having thus taken U. A. W. out of Homer Martin's hands, Murray & Hillman graciously announced that U. A. W. was still autonomous, promised to help eradicate "outside influences...