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Into this sorry mess stepped Michigan's senile, godly, sometimes cunning Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. To Lansing he summoned Chrysler's President K. T. Keller and Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped...
...Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers, Chrysler's Vice President Herman Weckler also addressed an open letter: "What you are doing is the old camouflage, Frankensteen, and you know it. . . .Now you want a new contract and we are willing to negotiate with you. So bring in your negotiating committee and your demands and let's get down to business. We are ready...
...Michigan law requires, Mr. Frankensteen filed five-day notice of intent to call formal strikes in all Chrysler plants. With this club bulging his pocket, he then accepted Mr. Weckler's invitation to negotiate a new contract (the old one expired Sept...
...shops, the greatest number, 2,400, in the big Dodge plant which ordinarily employs 25,000. Meantime negotiations had been going on in the executive offices at the Highland Park plant. Day after the sit-down began, when K. T. Keller, president of the company, and Vice President Herman Weckler drove up to the offices, the gates were closed and pickets kept them from entering. They retired to downtown Detroit. When Adolph Germer, C.I.O. representative, and Organizer Frankensteen arrived at the Chrysler plant for scheduled negotiations they telephoned downtown to Mr. Weckler to say it was all a mistake...
...think it would be terrible, reprehensible," cried Mr. Weckler...