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...General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full flower. Also fired at one crack were more than a dozen other organizers including such potent veterans of last spring's strikes as Robert Kanter and Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther. leader of the strong Detroit West Side local...
...conventions biennial rather than annual, to require a 50% vote of the membership (rather than of five locals from three different States) to call special conventions, to decrease the delegate representation of big locals, i.e., the Flint and West Detroit strongholds of Unity Lieutenants Robert Travis and Walter Reuther. Mr. Martin announced that an even more high-handed proposal, to give the president power to dismiss other executive officers, would be returned to committee...
...Communist reporter for the Communist Daily Worker who covered the story of the attack by Ford service men on Frankensteen, Reuther and others, let me congratulate you on the fairly decent account of the affair in the June 7 issue of TIME...
...press an ample attendance of newshawks and cameramen as well as a batch of clergymen and investigators of Senator La Toilette's civil liberties committee was insured. At the appointed time, Organizer Richard Truman Frankensteen, head of the U.A.W. Ford drive, accompanied by his lieutenant, Walter Reuther and Organizers Robert Kanter and J. J. Kennedy, appeared. Leader Frankensteen, a husky 30 and a onetime football player (University of Dayton), led his friends up a long flight of stairs to the overpass to supervise the handbills' issuance. He was smiling for photographers as a group of Ford men approached...
Unfortunately for Mr. Bennett's account as far as it concerned the beating of Organizer Frankensteen, there were too many _ witnesses. Newshawks reported recognizing Ford "service men" as the attackers reported that these men had asked which were Frankensteen and Reuther. Also the Ford men were not quick enough to seize the plates of photographers. One group of cameramen were chased in a car at 60 m.p.h. and took refuge in the Melvindale police station where they were followed by three men who identified themselves as Ford service men. The pictures showed that Frankensteen & friends were given no amateur...