Oral history interview with Harry E. Ross. 1961.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

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The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Ross, Harry E., 1900-

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Harry Ross was born in 1901. He spent thirty years with the UAW. For twenty-three years, he served in the capacity of an international representative. And, for seventeen years, he was on the staff of the Fair Practices and Anti-Discrimination Department in Detroit. Mr. Ross retired in 1963, and now resides In Florida....

Frankensteen, Richard T. (Richard Truman), 1907-1977

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Richard "Dick" Frankensteen (March 6, 1907 in Detroit – 1977) was the first president of the Automotive Industrial Workers Association. He attended Central High School, named to the all-city and all-state high school football teams and earned All-American honors in his senior year at University of Dayton. Beginning at age 15, he worked summers at the Dodge Brothers' plant for more than six years. After an intended career of teaching and high school football coaching in Ohio was crushed by ...

Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations (University of Michigan-Wayne State University) : Unionism in the Automobile Industry Project

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In the fall of 1959, the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations began an oral history project on the development of unionism in the automobile industry. Interviewees were selected on the basis of (a) having played an important role in the development of automobile unionism, (b) being recommended as able to articulate their experience, and (3); being available. The interviewees included a number of present day key UAW leaders as well as many important past ...

Wayne State University. Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

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Skeels, Jack W.

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Addes, George F., 1910-

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UAW Secretary-Treasurer. From the description of Oral history interview with George F. Addes, 1960. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321288 ...

Bugas, John S. (John Stephen), 1908-

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John Stephen Bugas (1908-1982) was a special agent for the FBI and a vice president of Ford Motor Company. Bugas was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and graduated from the University of Wyoming (1934). During his time with the FBI (1935-1944), he was based in Detroit. He investigated crime in that city and broke up wartime Nazi spy rings. He became vice president of Industrial Relations at Ford under the chairmanship of Henry Ford II in 1945. From the description of John S. Bugas pape...

Bennett, Harry Herbert, 1892-

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American Federation of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of American Federation of Labor records, 1883-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980267 ...

International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO). Local 3 (Detroit, Mich.)

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International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Ford Local 600

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International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)

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Peter J. Zanghi, a member of UAW Local 426, was elected first regional director of UAW Region 9 in 1939. From the description of Credential to the fifth convention, 1940 July 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40641494 ...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Automobile Industrial Workers Association.

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Martin, Warren Homer, 1902-1968

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Vice-President of UAW-AFL and President of UAW-CIO (1935-1939). From the description of Homer Martin papers, 1934-1941. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321137 President of the UAW. From the description of Oral history interview with Homer Martin, 1959. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321346 Warren Homer Martin, a former Baptist minister, was appointed vice-presi...

Ford motor company

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

American Federation of Labor. Federal Labor Union 18277 (Detroit, Mich.)

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Smith, Norman, 1899-1972.

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Union organizer, speaker and radio broadcaster in St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, and other cities. From the description of Norman Smith papers, 1935-1964. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321210 ...

Comment, William.

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