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Title: Richard T. Frankensteen Collection

Genre: Papers

Dates: 1930-1964

Size: 5.5 linear feet, 7 scrapbooks

ID#: 14

OCLC:

Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs

HEFA.01b.update

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SCOPE & CONTENTS

Ø Chronology

Ø Subjects

Ø Correspondents

Ø Transfer

SERIES STATEMENT

CONTENTS

Reuther Web Holdings

Scope & Contents

The papers of Richard T. Frankensteen, UAW vice-president and labor relations consultant, were donated to the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs by Mr. Frankensteen between February of 1962 and December of 1964. They were opened for research in May of 1965.

Chronology

1907 Born Detroit, Michigan

1932 B. A., University of Dayton

1932 Married, Grace Callahan -- three children, Carol Lee (1935), Marylyn (1936), Richard (1937)

1935 President, Automotive Industrial Workers Association

1935 Organizer, Dodge Local 3

1937 International Executive Board, UAW

1939 Organizational Director, Chrysler Department, UAW

1941 National Director of Aircraft Organization, UAW

1941 Committee on Labor and Management, WPA

1942 Office of Production Management, WPB

1942 National War Labor Board

1942 UAW Vice-President

1944 Chairman, Michigan Delegation to the Democratic National Convention

1945 Detroit Mayoral Candidate

1945 President, Labor’s Non-Partisan League of Wayne County

1949 Detroit Mayoral Candidate

1954 Detroit Common Council Candidate

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Subjects

Automotive Industrial Workers Association

Brewster Aeronautical Company Strike

UAW Dodge Local 3

National War Labor Board

Ryan Aeronautical Company Strike

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan

United Automobile Workers

 

Correspondents

George Addes

Frank J. Bender

Adolph Germer

Ralph Hetzel

Homer Martin

Phillip Murray

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Transfers

Tapes of a radio interview with Mr. Frankensteen about the 1941 labor dispute at North American Aviation and his speech to the Democratic National Convention in 1944 have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection.

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Series Statement

11 manuscript boxes

7 scrapbooks

Series I, Personal Papers, 1935-1964, Boxes 1-6

Arranged alphabetically [Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6]

Series II, Newspaper Clippings, 1930-1956, Boxes 7-11 and 7 scrapbooks

Arranged chronologically[Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10]

[Box11][Box12]

 

Contents

[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6] [Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10]

[Box11]

Scrapbooks

1. Clippings; Ford Motor Company vs. UAW, 1941

2. Brewster Case Clippings Scrapbook, Local 365, May 1944

3. Clippings, General Motors Strike, January-February, 1937;

Miscellaneous Clippings, March-July, 1934

4. Clippings, 1941

5-7. Clippings, 1942

[Box 1]

Series I

Automobile Industrial Workers Association, 1935

Automobile Industrial Workers Association, 1935

Automobile Industrial Workers Association, 1935

Correspondence, 1936

Correspondence, 1937

Correspondence, 1938

Correspondence, 1939

Correspondence, 1940

Correspondence, 1941

Correspondence, 1945

Correspondence, 1949

Correspondence, 1951 and 1954

Correspondence, undated

CIO Convention, 1940

Detroit Pay Rates, 1956

“Effective Speaking”

“Effective Speaking”

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[Box 2]

Election, State Representative, 1936

Election, City Council, 1937

Election, Democratic State and National Conventions, 1940

Election, 1945 Mayoral campaign, Expenses

Election, 1945 Mayoral campaign, Expenses

Election, 1945 Mayoral Campaign, Miscellaneous Materials

Election, 1945 Mayoral Campaign, Miscellaneous Materials

Election, 1945 Mayoral Campaign, Speeches, June-July

Election, 1945 Mayoral Campaign, Speeches, August-October

Election, 1945 Mayoral Campaign, Speeches, November

Election, 1949 Mayoral Campaign

Election, City Council, 1954

Election, Miscellaneous

Ford Pay Rates, 1954

Gubernatorial Election, 1936

Labor’s Non-Partisan League, 1938-39

Miscellaneous Labor Materials, 1930’s

Miscellaneous Memos

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[Box 3]

National War Labor Board, 1942

National War Labor Board, 1942

NWLB, 1942, Case No. 35, Inland Steel Company and

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

NWLB, 1942, Case No. 35, Inland Steel Company and

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

NWLB, 1942, Case No. 35, Inland Steel Company and

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

NWLB, 1942, Case No. 35, Inland Steel Company and

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

NWLB, 1942, Case No. 35, Inland Steel Company and

Steel Workers Organizing Committee

Press Releases, 1938-1946

Radicalism and the Automobile Industry

Social Security

Miscellaneous Personal, 1926-54

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[Box 4]

Speeches, Miscellaneous, 1938-1962

Speeches, Radio, 1936-1938

Speeches, Radio, 1936-1938

Relief, 1936-1938

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan,

Correspondence, January, 1937

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan,

Correspondence, February, 1937

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan,

Correspondence, March, 1937

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan,

Correspondence, April-July, 1938

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan,

General, 1937

State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission of Michigan,

Undated, 1937-1938

State Emergency Relief Administration - A Manual of Aid to

Dependent Children, n.d.

“Storm-Tossed,” a social order drama

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[Box 5] UAW, 1935-1955

Battle of the Overpass, 1937

UAW, 1936-39 (2 folders)

UAW, Legal Briefs, 1940

Industrial Automobile Employees, Dodge Main Unit, 1935

Dodge Local 3, Miscellaneous Materials, 1936-45

Homer Martin and UAW Factionalism, 1937-39

Minutes of the International Executive Board, May 9-25, 1938 and September

13-19, 1940

UAW, 1940 (2 folders)

Reports to UAW, 1940

Ryan Aeronautical Company Strike, San Diego, January 1941

UAW, 1941-42

UAW Aircraft Division, 1944

UAW, 1943-46

UAW, 1951 and 1955

Buttons

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[Box 6]

Labor Relations Materials, 1960-64

Series II

[Box 7]

Clippings, 1930-1937

1930-1932

1932

1935

1935-1936, from Automotive Industrial Workers Association

and UAW Scrapbook

1935

1936

1936

1936

1936

January, 1937

February-March, 1937

April-May, 1937

May-June, 1937

July, 1937

August, 1937

September, 1937

October, 1937

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[Box 8]

Clippings, 1937-1938

November, 1937

December, 1937

1937

1937

1937

1937

1937

1937

January, 1938

February, 1938

March, 1938

[Box 9]

Clippings, 1938

June, 1938

June, 1938

June, 1938

July, 1938

July, 1938

July, 1938

August, 1938

November-December, 1938

1938 (15 folders)

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[Box10]

Clippings, 1939-1948

1939

1939

1939

1940

Ryan Aeronautical Company Strike, 1941, San Diego, California

1941

1942

1943

1944

Brewster Aeronautical Corporation Strike Scrapbook, May-June, 1944

1944

1944

1945 (7 folders)

1946

1947

1948

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[Box11]

Clippings, 1949-1956 and undated

1949

1949

1949

1952

1954

1954

1954

1956

undated (8 folders)

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