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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 AffairsHEFA.01b.update |
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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.
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
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
George Addes
Frank J. Bender
Adolph Germer
Ralph Hetzel
Homer Martin
Phillip Murray
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.
11 manuscript boxes
7 scrapbooks
Series I, Personal Papers, 1935-1964, Boxes 1-6
Arranged alphabetically [Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6]
Contents |
[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6] [Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10] |
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
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”
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
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
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
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
Labor Relations Materials, 1960-64
Series II
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
Clippings, 1937-1938
November, 1937
December, 1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
January, 1938
February, 1938
March, 1938
Clippings, 1938
June, 1938
June, 1938
June, 1938
July, 1938
July, 1938
July, 1938
August, 1938
November-December, 1938
1938 (15 folders)
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
Clippings, 1949-1956 and undated
1949
1949
1949
1952
1954
1954
1954
1956
undated (8 folders)