Word: automen
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...important to the whole economy because autos mean steel, rubber, glass, zinc, aluminum and textiles, and also because of the popular belief that if autos roll well not too much can be wrong with business in general. Now the spring selling season begins, and it will determine whether automen will have a good year -or a great...
...automen were quick to point out, blow-by devices are no cureall. Much of the air pollution in the U.S. is produced by industry rather than cars. And even in cars, less than 40% of the smog-producing hydrocarbons comes from the crankcase. The major menace is exhaust fumes, which so far can be controlled only by expensive (upwards of $75) "afterburner" attachments...
Undisturbed. This threat did not seem to disturb Reuther unduly. The U.A.W. strike fund stands at $42 million-enough to pay strike benefits to G.M.'s 310,000 workers for almost two months. According to automen. Reuther was also counting on Government intervention in the event of a long strike; already the automen charged the Government had. in effect, intervened in Reuther's favor by negotiating a six-day extension of the Aug. 31 contract deadline -a move which will enable U.A.W. workers to collect $10.9 million in holiday pay for Labor...
...despite the approach of the contract deadline, the automakers stoutly deny reports that they have been reducing their steel purchases as a hedge against a shutdown. Brushing aside all strike talk, top automen confidently predict high sales for 1961-3 fourth quarter -partly because of buyer concern that the Berlin crisis may divert next year's auto steel to defense. And for 1962, Detroit seers happily foresee more than 6,500,000 car sales-roughly equivalent to booming 1960 and second only to 1955's record 7,200,000 sales...
...auto companies insist that they are prepared to grant only such benefits as can be paid for out of the industry's average 2½% increase in productivity each year. This would amount to about 7? more an hour, a settlement the industry would consider noninflationary. The automen are dead set against a shorter work week and against putting all workers on salaries. The industry opposes continuance of the annual "improvement-factor" automatic wage increases and the escalator clause that adjusts auto wages to rises in the Consumer Price Index. Snaps Reuther: "I have made it clear that both...