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Auto Dealers Get Chance
To Tell of Pressures
By MARTIN S. HAYDEN
North American Newt pc per AtUanca
A symbolic “man In Richmond”
Is scheduled within a few days
to produce a major headache for
the NeUon's auto manufacturers.
Personifying the automobile
dealer who feels he Is not getting
a fair shake from the maker of
the product he sells, “the man"
is the figment in the public rela
tions sense of a retired Navy
admiral who has ended up in
the Improbable position of chief
spokesman for 40,000 United
States auto dealers.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat
of Wyoming, yesterday verified
that he plans to caU Admiral
Frederick J. Bell, executive vice
president of the NaUonal Auto
mobile Dealers Association, as a
witness in his Senate Monopoly
Subcommittee hearing Into al
leged evil In the “bigness” of the
General Motors Corp.; Admiral
Bell In turn revealed that, if
called, he “assumes” he will go
and testify in line with his stand
ard complaint that, not only GM,
but the auto Industry as a whole,
“is brilliant in everything else,
but stupid in the handling of Its
dealers.”
True Independence Wanted
“As spokesman for the auto
dealers,” Admiral Bell said yes
terday, Tm not looking for a
fight. I’m not opposed to Gen
eral Motors ‘bigness’ and do not
regard automobile manufactur
ers as enemies of the auto
dealers; I’d be a fool if I did. I
do Insist, however, that the au
tomobile dealer should have
what every other retailer has:
A fair chance to be a truly in
dependent businessman.”
The man speaking doesn’t look
like a retired sea dog. His dark
hair and athletic build belle his
53 years. His phrase-turning Is
not what might -be expected
from an Annapolis graduate who
peaked one career as the 1942
skipper of the U.S.B. Grayson,
when he won a Navy Cross by
fighting ofT Japanese dive
bomber attacks and then taking
his destroyer away from the pro
tective fleet and into enemy
waters to rescue downed Ameri
can aviators. /
Ask the admiral by what right
he speaks for automobile dealers, ,
and he says he doesn't know: j
he relates that.he had gone to,
work for Baltimore!* McCor- 1
mlck Sc Co., a tea and spice
house, when a NADA committee,
called on him two and a half!
years ago and offered him opera- j
tlonal direction of the NADA!
with its history of always threat-;
enlng but never quite getting!
around to open battle with the :
automotive corporation parents
of Its members.
To Present Story
Now. If Admiral Bell has his
way, the association is going to
present the story symbolized by
the “man in Richmond” who
first appeared in a Bell-signed
editorial In the October NADA
magazine. Admiral Bell wrote
that his “Richmond man” had
spent 30 years “selling and serv
icing a product (automobiles) at
a profit for the maker and the
seller and with pleasure to the
buyer”; Just a few months ago
he spent SIOO,OOO “at the request
of his supplier" to Improve his
agency.
“Last week,” says Admiral
Bell’s editorial, “he was told bis
selling agreement would not be
renewed. He is about to go oat
of business. A relationship of 30
years Is to be severed.
“Why is this going to hap
pen? Because, so he’s told, he
hasn’t sold as many cars In the
past few months as an expert iu
Detroit determined he should
sell. It may be he has allowed!
a ccpnpett&g make to take first 1
place, or third place, or fifth'
place. It makes no difference.'
. . . nothing makes any differ-:
ence. The man In Richmond Is
out of a job.”
Since publication, NADA has
had hundreds of requests for
copies of the Richmond editorial;
Admiral Bell emphasizes that It
Is a symbolic case but Insists It
can be documented In real-life
Instances throughout the Na
tion.
“For example,” he says, “we
can document cases of small
dealers on metropolitan fringes
who couldn’t get the cars they
ordered from the factory and
then were ‘canceled out’ for not ■
selling enough cars. We can show
what happened financially -to;
specific dealers caught last year
when, to be delicate, they were!
'encouraged’ by manufacturers
to register as ‘sold’ cars still on
the Michigan assembly lines—
all so the manufacturer could
show a top fttmuftl 'sales’ record.”
Won’t Testify Against GM
Admiral Bell’s current worry
is that Senator O’Mahoney might
want him to testify "against’’
OM; he says, “I won’t do it."
But he adds. “We have got a
complaint that the autto Industry
as a whole can’t continue to
carry water on both shoulders,
calling a dealer an 'independent
businessman’ and treating him
as ‘an agent.'
“Other industries.” he said,
“have ‘dealers’ but no other
hard-goods industry has dealers
with a single-line franchise. A
radio-store owner, for instance,
can tell the biggest radio manu-
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facturer to take his product and
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cause they sell only one make.
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obligation between factory and
dealer; instead of mutuality you
have authority on one side and
responsibility on the other In a
deal where the manufacturer Is
bound to deliver nothing but has
the right to cancel a franchise
on 90-day notice, and without
cause.”
In times past, auto dealers and
their spokesmen have grumbled
in preliminary rounds but, as In
the case of Federal Trade Com
mission inquiries of the 1930 s
into the auto industry, failed to
show up when their formal testi
mony was required; this time
Senator O'Mahoney says he Is
going to call them, and the
admlral-turned-advocata "ex
pects” he will talk.
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former associate general counsel
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and non-political organization.
'lts council Is composed of lead-,
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