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...Buffalo himself. But an intimate henchman, Allan S. Haywood, C.I.O.'s national director of organization, did. From a hotel room Haywood proceeded to pull strings. There were plenty to pull. Big and lusty as it was, U.A.W. was split by factionalism. On one side were Walter Reuther and Dick Frankensteen, who were determined to purge U.A.W. of Communists and oust wavy-haired, black-browed George Addes from his job as secretary-treasurer. On the other side was saturnine Mr. Addes and some shadowy figures in dark corners...
Frankensteen was persuaded to abandon Reuther, flop over to Addes' side; he was slated for a new office especially created: U.A.W. vice president. The radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...
This deal burst like a bomb on the sweltering, restless convention. The Reuther group bellowed: "Cheap politics." Dick Frankensteen's lame explanation that he did not want to "crucify" the North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped his head against both sides. Many a cautious delegate believed that a Red purge might do U.A.W. more harm than good. But the Reuther group, angry at Frankensteen's flipflop, were out for blood...
...they commanded a majority of votes. In one skirmish after another they routed the Lewis-Addes side. By week's end it was plain that Mr. Lewis was taking a pratfall. Showdown would be over ousting the Communists, beating George Addes, electing a new executive board with a Reuther majority on it. But the final showdown would be bigger than that. As the convention went into its second hot, tense week in Buffalo, behind the scenes the fight was on for control of U.S. labor...
Millionaire ex-Governor William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island was ordered to the Canal Zone for Naval Reserve duty. . . . Edsel Ford's son Benson was called by the draft board for his final physical examination. . . . But C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, No. 1 labor organizer at General Motors, finally won deferment on the plea that his wife, who is also his secretary, would lose her job if he were drafted. . . . And 6 ft. 3½ in. Actor Orson Welles was exempted, of all things, for asthma...