National Affairs: Collision of Stars

A year ago the United Automobile Workers, their youthful ex-preacher president, Homer Martin, their strapping and scrappy organizer, Richard Frankensteen, were stars in the drama of renascent U. S. Labor and in the crown of John L. Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half on...

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