Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented FORTUNE: "The indignation here seems to be directed specifically at the leadership of the present union movement. Some of it is certainly intended for union rackets. Some of it may be inspired by a feeling that Lewis has overplayed his cards and brought a useful cause into popular disrepute. Some of it may even arise from a belief that Green, in contrast with Lewis, has been too inactive in the service of organized labor...
Behind this evidence of declining confidence in Homer Martin's leadership was a variety of reasons. Recession has meant long layoffs or drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W. members, most of whom are new to unionism.* With it came a drop in dues payments so sharp that the international union took all its organizers off the payroll, asked them to serve on a volunteer basis temporarily. Despite claims of increasing enrollment of Ford workers, the union...
...growing Unity opposition, the U. A. W.'s difficulties are due mainly to inept leadership by Martin and Frankensteen. Unity leaders were alarmed to hear that Homer Martin had agreed to further restrictions on G.M. grievance committees, which even last year functioned none too smoothly, but their chief complaint is Martin's disregard of democratic procedure, typified for them by his failure to submit the G. M. supplementary agreement to the membership for ratification. Last week, though Unity leaders disclaimed any part in it, evidence was accumulating of a drive to oust Martin before...
...Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance of China. "The strain on the Generalissimo now is gigantic, almost superhuman," said Mme Chiang last week. "I feel that I must do everything in my power to help him hold up under that strain, because I believe his leadership is vital right...
...their opposition. Last week the workers appeared in an unorganized way to be again trying to drive and lead Léon Blum, who now heads his second Popular Front Cabinet and was encountering firm opposition last week in the Senate. The workers were by no means under the leadership of Communist Thorez, but he bid violently for that leadership last week by demanding a nationwide General Strike...