Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recorder's Court. Frank Murphy is a red-headed dynamo, but he had not had a full night's sleep for five weeks. Husky Vice President Knudsen, according to one of his best friends, had "aged ten years in the past month." Strike Leader Homer Martin was worn to a frazzle, and C. I. O. Counsel Lee Pressman, third Labor representative, had just come from arguing the injunction suit before Judge Gadola. G. M.'s Finance Chairman Donaldson Brown and General Counsel John Thomas Smith showed the effects of the long weeks of responsibility...
...pension problem was made last week over a conference table in an office next to President Pelley's. On one side of the table sat Management in the person of Mr. Pelley, backstopped by such railroad notables as Erie's Charles Eugene Denney, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Illinois Central's Downs, Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray, Santa Fe's Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, St. Paul's Henry Alexander Scandrett. On the other side of the table sat able, popular Chairman George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association supported by such...
...active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union. In Washington all these could confer with the two other vitally interested parties to the strike: John L. Lewis, overlord of the Committee for Industrial Organization, to whom the unionization of the motor industry is but one strategic move in his great labor game...
...attempting to obtain rights guaranteed to them by Congress in a declaration of public policy in the National Labor Relations Act." Curious was Mr. Lewis' reference to the National Labor Relations Act. for his United Automobile WTorkers failed to invoke it in practice. Last week Strike Leader Homer Martin proclaimed that the union had enrolled 75% of the workers in General Motors' plants. General Motors responded that 110,000 of its 135,000 motors production employes had signed petitions or otherwise protested against being thrown out of work by the strike of the upstart union. This, said...
...Kansans have improved on Nimrod and the late Martin Johnson by developing a new method of rabbit hunting. They merely reach under rocks and grab whatever they can find. To date they score seven rabbits, have embarrassed no fellow Kansans...