Word: frankensteens
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Homer Martin and Richard Frankensteen, C. I. O.'s chief Detroit organizer, started from Lansing over icy midnight roads with an escort of State troopers to call the men out. And that was no easy task. John Lewis' word was by no means law to these thousands of raw recruits in his labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property...
...United Automobile Workers' de mand for recognition as sole bargaining agent for all Chrysler employes, Richard T. Frankensteen, chief automobile union organizer in Detroit, telephoned a code phrase "My hand is up" to his lieutenants in the factories and within two hours all Chrysler plants in Detroit were shut tight (TIME, March...
...Highland Park plant. Day after the sit-down began, when K. T. Keller, president of the company, and Vice President Herman Weckler drove up to the offices, the gates were closed and pickets kept them from entering. They retired to downtown Detroit. When Adolph Germer, C.I.O. representative, and Organizer Frankensteen arrived at the Chrysler plant for scheduled negotiations they telephoned downtown to Mr. Weckler to say it was all a mistake. The company officers would be admitted to their plant offices if they came back...
...union affairs took up more & more of his time, Dick Frankensteen quit his Dodge job and he and Johnny Andrews naturally began drifting apart. When most of the independent automobile unions merged with United Automobile Workers last year, he led his A. I. W. A. locals into the fold, became U. A. W.'s chief organizer in the Detroit area. As such, he was in the front trenches when the great General Motors strike (see p. 14) began last December...
...last week Unionist Frankensteen sat in a crowded Senate committee room in Washington, listening to testimony before the La Follette subcommittee investigating violations of civil liberties and labor rights. Suddenly he heard something that jerked him up with a funny feeling in his stomach's pit. In the witness chair sat a hard-faced, scar-lipped onetime Pinkerton detective named Daniel G. Ross, sales manager of an organization called Corporations Auxiliary Co. He was talking about Richard Frankensteen's 1935 vacation, and about his friend and his friend's "millionaire uncle." But he did not refer...