Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent resurgence of labor no new union has had more spectacular success than the United Automobile Workers of America, no labor leader of the past year has achieved more fame than the Auto Workers' brisk and boyish president, Homer Martin. Eight months ago, armed with contracts from General Motors and Chrysler, a membership of 375,000, an overflowing treasury and the enthusiasm of youth, the U. A. W. prepared to shift into high and charge the unconquered Ford fortress. Last week the sound of grinding gears could still be heard...
Throughout the country, elections of local union officers were being completed. Though re-elected without opposition at the union's faction-torn convention last August, President Martin is by no means an unchallenged leader. The current local elections have little to do with local issues; they have become a judgment of the Martin administration. In each local auto workers were usually confronted with two slates: Progressive and Unity. (Both factions accuse each other of being false to their names.) The Progressives are led by Martin and his hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination...
With most returns in, it appeared certain last week that Progressive candidates had lost often enough to weaken Homer Martin's prestige considerably. In Flint, Mich., focal point of the General Motors empire, with 30.000 union members, the Martin forces won their only important victory. Martin and Frankensteen took the stump personally, and their ticket was returned by nearly 2-to-1. But Detroit's bustling West Side local, with another 30,000 members, re-elected Unity Leader Walter Reuther by 4-to-1. Roland J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, a vice president of the international...
Sitting at the head table were Charles Francis Adams '88, former president of the club; Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, former president; I. Tucker Burr '79, first vice-president of the club; President Conant '13; George Peabody Gardner '10; Frederick Martin '93, president of the Harvard Club of New York; Maurice M. Osborne '07; Leverett Saltonstall '14; Edward A. Taft '04, president of the club; and John H. Williams, dean of the new Littauer School...
Edward A. Taft '04 presided over the speeches which followed. Martin opened the speaking and was followed by Williams who described the purpose and discussed the practicality of the Littauer School. The unusual teaching methods which the new school will use in attempting to teach public administration policy were explained since most of those present had not heard much about this...