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Title: UAW President’s Office: Homer Martin Collection

Type  : Papers,                   

Dates: 1934-1941                    

Size   : 2 linear feet--4 manuscript boxes, 2 scrapbooks

ID    #: 63-uaw               

OCLC:                    

©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs

 

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The papers of Homer Martin were deposited in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in 1961 by Mr. Martin.

 

Homer Martin was born on September 16, 1901 in Illinois.  After high school he attended Hewing College and received his AB from William Jewel College.  Martin then attended the Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary for two years.

 

After serving in Baptist churches in Goreville, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri, Martin went to work in the auto plants of Kansas City.  He soon became active in the union movement and was appointed a Vice-President of the UAW-AFL in 1935.  In 1936 he was elected President of what came to be the UAW-CIO.

 

Martin served as UAW-CIO President until 1939, at which time he reorganized the UAW-AFL and became that body's President until 1941 when he left the auto union movement.

 

There is also a microfilm version of this collection.

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Subjects

William Collins

Rev. Charles Coughlin

Francis Dillon

Ed Hall

Frank Morrison

 

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Some photographs received with the papers have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.

 

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Contents

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[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Scrapbook]

  1-Box

 

 

         1-32.  Correspondence, Mar 1934 - Oct 1937       

                                33.     Correspondence, 1938-40

                                34.     Correspondence, n.d.

 

2-Box  

 

         1-8.   Documents, misc., 1934-39

         9.      Documents, misc., n.d.

         10.     “The Crusader” (Battery Workers Union #18633), Jan-Aug 1935

         11-12.         Newspaper clippings, 1934-35

         13-21.         Newspaper clippings, 1938-40

         22.     Newspaper clippings, n.d.

 

3-Box  

 

         1.      Radio addresses, Kansas City, Missouri, Jul 1935

         2.      Radio address by Sarraine Loewe, Chicago, 11 Nov 1936

         3.      Radio address, Racine, Wisconsin, 11 Dec 1936

         4.      Membership meeting, Anderson, Indiana, 22 Feb 1937

         5.      Membership meeting, Tarrytown, New York, 25 Feb 1937

         6.      Mass meeting, Newark, New Jersey, 26 Feb 1937

         7.      Women's World Congress, Chicago, 10 Mar 1937

         8.      Dodge Local 3, Detroit, 15 Mar 1937

         9.      Strikers in Dodge plant, Detroit, 15 Mar 1937

         10.     Mass meeting, General Motors strike, Oshawa, Ontario, 10 Apr 1937     

         11.     Special Meeting, Oshawa, 16 Apr 1937

         12.     Memorial Park, Oshawa, 17 Apr 1937

         13.     Membership meeting, Pontiac, Michigan, 1 May 1937

         14.     Ford Protest mass meeting, Baby Creek Park, Detroit, 5 Jun 1937

         15.     Mass meeting, Kearsley Park, Flint, Michigan, 6 Jun 1937

         16.     Associated Press of Michigan, Flint, 7 Jun 1937

         17.     Membership meeting, Connersville, Indiana, 12 Jun 1937

         18.     Membership meeting, Muncie, Indiana, 12 Jun 1937

         19.     Protest mass meeting, Republic Steel Strike, Monroe, Michigan, 13 Jun                        1937

         20.     Membership meeting, Saginaw, Michigan, 15 Jun 1937

         21.     NAACP Convention, Detroit, 30 Jun 1937

         22.     Membership meeting, Saginaw, 1 Jul 1937

         23.     Shop Stewards meeting, Saginaw, 1 Jul 1937

         24.     Membership meeting, Saginaw, 2 Jul 1937

         25.     Mass meeting, Port Huron, Michigan, 4 Jul 1937

         26.     Local 159 membership meeting, Pontiac, 13 Jul 1937

         27.     General Motors Stewards and Committeemen, 15 Jul 1937

         28.     Membership Meeting, South Bend, Indiana, 17 Jul 1937

         29.     Radio address, Detroit, 3 Aug 1937

         30.     Radio address, Detroit, 3 Jan 1937

         31.     Radio address, Buffalo, New York, 8 Jan 1938

         32.     CIO mass meeting, Buffalo, 8 Jan 1938

         33.     International Executive Board, Detroit, 13 Jan 1938

         34.     CIO unemployed meeting, Toledo, Ohio, 21 Jan 1938

         35.     CIO mass meeting, Fall River, Massachusetts, 24 Jan 1938

         36.     Local 22 ILGWU, New York City, 10 Feb 1938

         37.     Notes for mass meeting, Detroit, Feb 1938

         38.     Pre-election membership meeting, Flint, 1 Mar 1938

         39.     Town Hall Meeting of the Air, New York City, 10 Mar 1938

         40.     Membership meeting, Oshawa, 12 Mar 1938

         41.     Political rally, Pontiac, 17 Mar 1938

         42.     Membership meeting, Pontiac, 17 Mar 1938

         43.     Sermon, Rev. Morley's Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 27 Mar 1938

         44.     Local 3 membership meeting, Detroit, 27 Mar 1938

         45.     Accusations by Bob Travis, answers by Martin, Lansing, Michigan,

                    30 Mar 1938

         46.     Radio address, Detroit, 31 Mar 1938

         47.     Local 182 Special Meeting, Lansing, 1 Apr 1938

         48.     Article; “Success of UAWA”(Technical American), 26 Apr 1938

         49.     Article; “Union Responsibility” (Commentator), May 1938

         50.     Community Church, New York City, 29 May 1938

         51.     Church and Capital-Labor Controversy, Denver, 18 Oct 1938

         52.     Radio address, Flint, 7 Nov 1938

         53.     Retail Clerk's meeting, Flint, 7 Nov 1938

         54.     Wilkinsburg Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, 20 Nov 1938

         55.     Membership meeting, Anderson, Indiana, 2 Dec 1938

         56.     Radio address, Jackson, Michigan. 7 Dec 1938

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         1.      Radio address, Detroit, 10 Jan 1939

         2.      Radio address, Detroit, 17 Jan 1939

         3.      Radio address, Detroit, 19 Jan 1939

         4.      Radio address, Detroit, 24 Jan 1939

         5.      Local officers, Northern High Conference, Detroit, 29 Jan 1939

         6.      Radio address, Detroit, 31 Jan 1939

         7.      Speech notes, Jan-Feb 1939

         8.      Article; “The CIO Viewpoint” (Our Sunday Visitor), 2 Feb 1939

         9.      Radio address, Detroit, 2 Feb 1939

         10.     Radio address, Detroit, 7 Feb 1939

         11.     Radio address, Detroit, 9 Feb 1939

         12.     Radio address, Detroit, 14 Feb 1939

         13.     Address of Jack Little, President of Local 156, Flint, 16 Feb 1939

         14.     Meeting of locals, Meriden, Connecticut, 16 Feb 1939

         15.     Meeting of locals, Tarrytown, New York, 16 Feb 1939

         16.     Minutes of closed meeting, Local 365, Long Island City, New York,

                    17 Feb 1939

         17.     Address by Ed Linder, President of Packard Local 190, Detroit,

                    17 Feb 1939

         18.     Address by Elmer Dowell, Director of GM Department, Detroit,

                    17 Feb 1939

         19.     Radio address, Detroit, 21 Feb 1939                             

         20.     Radio address, Detroit, 23 Feb 1939

         21.     Radio address, Detroit, 28 Feb 1939

         22.     Address of Earl Heaton, President of Local 146, Anderson, Indiana,

                    2 Mar 1939

         23.     Radio address, Detroit, 3 Mar 1939

         24.     Radio address, Detroit, 10 Mar 1939

         25.     Address of William E. Dowell, Executive Board Member, Detroit,

                    14 Mar 1939

         26.     Radio address, Detroit, 21 Mar 1939

         27.     Radio address, Detroit, 4 Apr 1939

         28.     Radio address, Detroit, 11 Apr 1939

         29.     Mass meeting, Detroit, 20 Apr 1939

         30.     Radio address, Detroit, 20 Apr 1939

         31.     Radio address, Detroit, 25 Apr 1939

         32.     Radio address, Detroit, 2 May 1939

         33.     Radio address, Detroit, 9 May 1939

         34.     Radio address, Detroit, 16 May 1939

         35.     Radio address, Detroit, 17 Nov 1939

         36.     Address, Detroit, 28 Feb 1940

         37.     Radio address, Detroit, 27 Mar 1941

         38.     Radio address, Detroit, 28 Mar 1941

         39.     Speeches, incomplete, c. 1939

         40.     Radio addresses, misc., 1935-41

         41.     Speeches, misc., n.d.

         42.     Speeches on Communism, n.d.

 

Scrapbook

 

         1.      Clippings, 1937

         2.      Clippings, 1938

 

 

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 Index to Box 2, Folders 1-9

 

 

A.L.B.                                     2-1, 2-2.

A.F.L.                                     2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-9.

Automotive Parts Companies.            2-1.

Auto Manufacturing Companies 2-3.

Auto Stamping Co.                           2-5.

 

Battery Workers Union             2-10.

Bendix                                   2-5.

Borg Warner Corp.                           2-8.

Bowling Green Rubber Co.                2-9.

 

Chevrolet, Kansas City, Missouri        2-2.

Chevrolet, Janesville, Wisconsin        2-3.

Chevrolet, Toledo, Ohio           2-3.

Chevrolet Local #14                         2-5.

Chrysler                                 2-6, 2-9.

C.I.O.                                    2-9.

Corn Products Refining Co.               2-2.

 

Discrimination                                  2-5.

 

Electric Auto-Lite Co.                        2-1.

 

Fisher Body                            2-1.

Fruehauf Trailer Co.                         2-9.

 

General Motors                                2-6.

 

Ismert-Hinckie Milling Co.                 2-2.

 

L.A. Young Spring and Wire               2-6.

L.R.B.                                     2-1.

Labor Day                              2-2.

Local #12                               2-9.

Local #93                               2-5.

Local #18633                                   2-10.

Local #19320                                   2-4, 2-9.

 

Martin and F.L.U. No. 19320

     vs. Fisher Body, et. al.                 2-4.

Martin and Swift vs. Chevrolet,

     Fisher Body, et. al.              2-3, 2-4.

Martin and UAW vs. Addes, et. al.      2-7, 2-8.

McKie, William                         2-6.

Michigan House Bill No. 369      2-6.

Miscellaneous Agreements                2-1.

Motors Products Strike             2-4.

National Battery Co.                         2-9.

National Industrial Recovery Act        2-9.

N.R.A.                                    2-3, 2-9.

Occupations, running rates                2-7.

Organizational Drive                         2-4.

 

Progressive Club meetings                2-4, 2-5.

 

Red Motor (C.P. of White Motor)        2-8.

Roosevelt, F.D.                       2-1.

 

Seaman Body Co., Milwaukee  2-3.

 

Taylor, F.H.                             2-6.

Textile Strike                                   2-2.

Toledo auto plants                            2-3.

Toledo Charter                                 2-5.

Tool and Die                                    2-9.

Tucker, Clifford N.                   2-4.

 

UAW Convention                              2-5.

UAW Constitution                             2-6.

UAW General Executive Board  2-5, 2-6.

UAW Income, Expenditures               2-7.

UAW National Council              2-2, 2-3.

United Mine Workers                         2-5, 2-7.

 

Wagner Bill                             2-3, 2-4.

Walker Ajax Strike                           2-5.

Washburn Crosby Co.              2-3.

White Motor                            2-3.

Willys Overland                       2-4.

Workers                                 2-9.

Workers Education                  2-2.

Workers Rights Amendment              2-3.

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