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...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 of opposition forces led by Vice Presidents Ed Hall and Wyndham Mortimer and by the daring young tacticians of the sit-down strikes, Robert Travis, George Edwards, John Anderson and the fabulous Reuther Brothers, Walter, Roy and Victor...
...statement that the "Unity" campaign against Homer Martin was "directed from the New York headquarters of the Communist Party and put into motion here through the party's representatives, in association with those who follow the party's 'line.' " Spearhead of the Unity group is Wyndham Mortimer, who neither admits nor denies that he is a Communist but who is known to cleave to the "party line." An oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored by John L. Lewis over Homer Martin, and at the U. A. W. convention last August...
...snubbed Wyndham Mortimer, veteran first vice president and leader of the opposition, by upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full...
...from 30,000 to 375,000 members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin was determined to oust both. Although Homer Martin was unopposed for reelection, the Mortimer-Hall faction had been holding caucuses over...
...Flint, Wyndham Mortimer read the terms of the settlement to the sit-downers before John L. Lewis was again taking his 6 p. m. medicine. When he read that General Motors would recognize the Union as bargaining agent for its members, the sit-downers grumbled. When he read Mr. Knudsen's letter, the grumbling ended...