Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First thing Worker Martin learned about was the "speed-up." Put to work with four others on a truck assembly line, within a week he found himself and one other doing the work of the original five. "Working conditions" became a reality one day when several completed trucks slipped off their runway, crashed down on the spot where he would have been standing if he had not been at lunch. He went to the foreman, got steel posts put up which saved his life next time some trucks crashed down. Meantime he had become vice president of the local automobile...
Chiefly because the bulk of its workers were unskilled or semiskilled, floating from plant to plant and city to city during seasonal layoffs, the automobile industry never had a union worth mentioning until the Blue Eagle was hatched in 1933. The A. F. of L., Homer Martin soon discovered, was really interested only in preserving the power & privilege of its unions of skilled craftsmen, which had no place for the automobile working masses. He went along, nonetheless, and when automobile locals were merged into a United Automobile Workers International Union, he was appointed vice president. Young, educated, eloquent...
...Battle. Last week in Detroit the paths which began in Copenhagen and on an Illinois farm had met. William Knudsen and Homer Martin, as opposing field generals, were locked in one of the crucial industrial battles of U. S. history-the struggle of United Automobile Workers to make good General Martin's old boast, organize all 69 automobile plants of giant General Motors Corp.* (TIME...
Behind General Martin ranged burly John L. Lewis with his 1,400,000 organized workmen of the C. I. O. unions, his surging ambition to become leader of millions more in the automobile, steel, rubber, textile and other mass industries...
Flanked by their advisers, the rival generals maneuvered from headquarters two miles apart. G. M.'s Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...