 Accordingly, he decided that the only safe way to organize Flint was simply to bypass those locals.Mortimer, Eric Branoff, Roy Reuther, Henry Kraus, and Ralph Dale began meeting with Flint autoworkers in their homes, keeping the names of new members a closely guarded secret from others in Flint and at UAW headquarters.As the UAW studied its target, it discovered that GM had only two factories that produced the dies from which car body components were stamped