Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Providence, R. I. Eleven rebellious locals were expelled by T. W. O. C., which sued to take over their funds. To Sidney Hillman's surprise and discomfort, Superior Court Judge Charles A. Walsh held last month that the contract whereby U. T. W. officers signed away their union was invalid, because the members did not have a chance to vote...
...vice presidents called Francis Gorman a traitor, and Mr. Hillman scoffed: "Mr. Gorman's attempt is doomed to failure, because he has no organization and no following." Mr. Gorman promptly fired the vice presidents, thereby indicating that he now looks upon himself as the head of an independent union, distinct from both...
...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
Thus consigned to Coventry, far from the Michigan battleground for votes in the union elections next year, Richard Frankensteen sighed: "There never was any question of whether I would go. There is work to be done out there...
Since November 1937, the union has had a contract with Mergenthaler's Brooklyn plant. Last month it called a strike to resist a 10% wage cut for 1,600 employes...