Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outraged delegations speedily called on President Martin to explain the dismissal of the men largely responsible for the union's triumph over General Motors. Mr. Martin took refuge in the Eddystone Hotel. The delegations swarmed through the lobby, picketed the entrances. Telephone appeals for an audience were rebuffed with reports that Mr. Martin was out. Finally a group commanded by a unionist named Robert Gallagher penetrated to the fourth floor, started to pound and kick at Room...
...Leaping Parson's congregation of 375,000 motor workers has never been noted for its spirit of brotherly love. Indeed, rampant factionalism waxed so bitter at the union's Milwaukee convention last August that John L. Lewis had to arrange a paternal compromise between the Martin faction and the militant "unity" leaders (TIME, Sept. 6). Since that compromise settled almost nothing, President Martin proceeded to settle the squabble in his own fashion...
...powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring's strikes as Robert Kanter and Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther. leader of the strong Detroit West Side local...
Suddenly the door opened to reveal Homer Martin's evangelical features looking like those of a cornered gangster. He had a cigaret between his lips, a pistol in his fist. Stepping back from the pistol pointed at his midriff, Leader Gallagher said icily: "That's a hell of a way to greet a union...
Embarrassed, Mr. Martin put his gun away, promising to meet the delegations later. But as word spread swiftly throughout the city that Homer Martin had pulled a pistol on his own men, the milling crowd outside the hotel grew so big that police were called to disperse it. Rumors spread that Homer Martin was setting the police on his own men-a more heinous labor crime than pulling a pistol...