Word: overpasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partisan primaries last month Maurice Sugar, counsel to the United Automobile Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...
Moreover, every one of C. I. O.'s five councilmanic candidates remained in the running. Maurice Sugar, U. A. W.'s attorney, placed seventh with 88,000. Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W.,'s assistant president and hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plant, was ninth with 83,000. Thirteenth was Tracy Doll, president of U. A. W.'s Hudson local, followed in 14th place by Walter Reuther, head of the big, tough West Side local. And Ray Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, squeezed into 17th place. One of John L. Lewis...
...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...
Unsoftened by Mr. Bennett's hospitality the reporters and cameramen proved the Labor Board's best witnesses. Opening his hearings in Detroit three weeks ago, the Labor Board trial examiner, John T. Lindsay, confined the early sessions to the Battle of the Overpass, though Louis J. Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings...
...play to this Federal hearing, nonetheless a significant feature of labor-law-employer relations, developed in Detroit last week when Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy ordered eight Ford "service" men held for trial for assault and battery during the Battle of the overpass. Included was Harry Bennett's subhead of the Ford service department Everett Moore. None sent to trial was Italian...