Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, a regional meeting of representatives of 46,000 United Automobile Workers loyal to embattled President Homer Martin condemned Leader Lewis' proposed intervention in their troubled union affairs, voted to suspend their 5? monthly dues to C.I.O.-a move highly ominous if Homer Martin succeeds in retaining control of his 400,000-member union. Having lavished on steel and textile organization and on politics a great part of the reserve funds of his own United Mine Workers (the unsuccessful attempt to nominate U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy for Governor of Pennsylvania cost C.I.O. and U.M.W. a whacking...
...House Committee on Un-American Activities headed by ham-handed Representative Martin Dies of Texas, after hearings in Washington which revealed it as nothing but an ill-planned, amateurish Red-hunt, last week heard some news of fascist propaganda but soon got back to its Red theme. From the testimony of Joseph B. Matthews, onetime head of the League Against War & Fascism (now League for Peace & Democracy), the Committee learned that "the Communist Party relies heavily upon the carelessness or indifference of thousands of prominent citizens in lending their names for its propaganda purposes. For example, the French newspaper...
...union* and most obstreperous problem child. Last week Solidarity Forever boomed from the throats of 1,000 U. A. W. men convoked in rump convention at Toledo by the supporters of the five U. A. W. officials who were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch it up-presumably by kicking out President Martin. Cried Wyndham Mortimer, chief spokesman for the rump officials: "We need...
This meeting was the final flash of a highly electric U. A. W. week. When President Martin heard it had been called, he promptly called two rival meetings of his own, one the same day in Detroit for the heads of U. A. W.'s Michigan locals, another next day in Cleveland for Ohio locals-in order to make union men choose which side they would meet with. But having announced his intention to keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars...
Last week's rumpus made it more doubtful than ever that, if & when Motorman Ford does sign a U. A. W. contract, the signature next to his will be Homer Martin's. For the split between Laborman Martin and his former colleagues had become an engagement of major importance in auto labor's bitter civil...