Word: forded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto workers, in convention in Milwaukee, voted a $10 million war chest to win from Ford some of the creature comforts of the "welfare state" (see below). Old John Lewis, whose miners have all kinds of welfare already, had put his men on a three-day week to spread the work around...
Reuther swung into action. Telegram after telegram was read to the convention from Ford locals, reporting overwhelming votes in favor of a strike against Ford. Despite the fact that the "news" was weeks old, the delegates roared applause after each reading. When the pitch was right, Reuther asked them to give his executive board authority to levy a special $1-a-week-for-twelve-weeks strike assessment on all employed U.A.W. members. From their seats behind long, banquet-like tables, the delegates shouted approval. It meant a war chest of some $10 million...
...Young to Die." The auto workers, like the steelworkers, were concentrating on pensions and welfare benefits. The demands on Ford would total 40? to 44? an hour, including a cost-of-living increase (about 10?), and, more important, 8% for health insurance, 24? for pensions...
...week's end, the delegates disbanded in high spirits. Said Walter Reuther with deep satisfaction: "This is the most serious and most constructive convention we ever had." A Ford strike was now a definite possibility...
...With the Ford contract on a day-to-day basis, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther insisted that only a surrender by Ford could avert a strike; "We are prepared," cried Reuther, "to use all the weapons possessed by free labor in America." The steel workers talked just as tough, but Big Steel's tight-lipped Ben Fairless showed no signs of yielding. Snapped he last week: "There is no sound or proper justification for . . . a wage increase at this time...