Word: homerically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to rise above your personal ambitions and dictator complex."-Homer Martin to John Lewis...
...should be clear that the U. A. W. is not severing its relations with the C. I. O., but that Homer Martin is deserting both the U. A. W. and the C. I. O."-Philip Murray & Sidney Hillman (for Mr. Lewis) to Homer Martin...
...aircraft and related supply industries. Each continued to call itself United Automobile Workers of America. One is a C. I. O. union, to whose acting presidency homely, placid Roland Jay Thomas of Detroit was elected last week by his suspended colleagues on the old union's executive board. Homer Martin's U. A. W. remained for the present independent of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. (like David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers). In this circumstance lies a pretty problem for automakers who originally capitulated more to John Lewis...
Relative strength of the two unions cannot be accurately known before U. A. W. locals choose between two rival conventions called for next month, C. I. O.'s March 27 in Cleveland, Homer Martin's March 4 in Detroit. Presidents Thomas and Martin last week moved to protect themselves against each other's legal maneuvering by hiring high-powered lawyers. Mr. Martin chose Frank P. Walsh of Manhattan and Frank Mulholland of Toledo. Mr. Thomas chose Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, counsel for years to Sidney Hillman's embattled Amalgamated Clothing Workers, son of the late...
...choosing Roland Thomas to front for their union, C. I. O.'s adherents played a smart trick on Homer Martin. When he began to lose his grip on the executive board last year, one member who stood by him was Mr. Thomas. Only when Murray & Hillman intervened did Martin and Thomas finally part company. Thus Homer Martin had to eat many an old word last week when he accused his onetime friend of sabotaging the union...