Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assessments for Politics. In Detroit's Masonic Temple Arizona's Goldwater addressed 1,010 Republicans on "the political blight that has come upon the state of Michigan," i.e., control of the Michigan Democratic Party by United Auto Workers' Boss Walter Reuther. "Underneath the Democrat label here in Michigan there is something new, and something dangerous-born of conspiracy and violence, sired by socialists and nurtured by the general treasury of the U.A.W.-C.I.O. This is the pattern of political conquest. This is the pattern of men whose conscienceless use of violence and money to achieve political power...
...This is the great spellbinder," said Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams as he defended United Auto Workers' President Walter Philip Reuther to a U.A.W. national convention in Detroit last week. But this time Reuther wove no spell of oratorical magic. What he did do was get 3,200 U.A.W. delegates to approve his 1958 set of demands for the auto industry's contract negotiations opening early in April. Items as approved...
...noninflationary" profit-sharing plan; under this, all company profits (before taxes ) in excess of 10% of capital invested would be sliced up to give 25% to employees (other than executives) and to refund another 25% to auto buyers as rebates...
...strike does not come off, the extra assessments will be refunded. Though there were optimists who believed that under cover of his distinctly inflationary profit-sharing plan Reuther would be able to bring home some more good old-fashioned inflationary pay raises. Detroit generally believed that, with the auto industry in trouble, a lot of U.A.W. members might have to hit the bricks first...
...before strike time, steel shutters slammed down on store fronts, and the usual bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal for the strike to start. Auto horns, usually muted under threat of a $100 fine, hooted in derisive chorus across the city...