George Addes

George Addes

George F. Addes (1911 - 1990) was a founder of the United Automobile Workers union and its secretary-treasurer from 1936 until 1947. [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DB1231F932A15755C0A966958260|title=Obituary for George Asses|accessdate=2008-03-27 |author=New York Times website|date=21/6/1990] [cite web|url=http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=115|title=The most important strike in American labor history|accessdate=2008-03-27 |author=detnews.com website|date=23/6/1997] [cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,802101,00.html|title=The importance of United Automobile Workers|accessdate=2008-03-27 |author=time.com website|date=18/8/1951] [cite news|url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,934440,00.html | title = Who's George For? | work = Time | date = March 18, 1946 ]

Addes and Richard Frankensteen led a major faction of the Union, supporting piecework and incentive pay in auto plants. The other faction, led by Walter Reuther, accused them both of being communists. [ [http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=119 Richard Frankensteen, the UAW's 'other guy'] ]

See also

* Battle of the Overpass
* Communists in the U.S. Labor Movement (1919-1937)

References

External links

* [http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/collections/hefa_263-uaw.htm UAW War Policy Collection]


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