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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reuther runs-with managerial efficiency-the largest U.S. labor union: the 1,500,000-man C.I.O. United Automobile Workers (U.A.W.); he has signed up 250,000 new workers in the last four years. Last week he achieved a triumph and a great victory for labor, winning from Ford Motor Co. a form of guaranteed semiannual wage for laid-off workers. This week he wrung similar terms from General Motors, the world's greatest manufacturing corporation...
...Tuller Hotel last week. Reuther told how he set out to establish the guaranteed annual wage (G.A.W.) in the automobile industry: "We decided General Motors was the easiest place to get money from, because it has the most, but the most difficult to pioneer with on principle. Ford is the easiest place to make progress on principle. So we decided on the strategy of implementing the principle we expected to establish at Ford with the money we get from...
When Reuther first presented his guaranteed annual wage plan at the bargaining table last April, Ford Vice President John Bugas said: "This is something that we will never, never do." Replied Reuther: "Never say never, John." General Motors, which had also begun negotiations, offered a stock-sharing plan that Reuther rejected. Then Ford made a similar stock offer. "I blew my top," said Reuther, who charged collusion between the two companies. "How the hell." he shouted at the conference table, "do you get a Chevvy on a Ford assembly line...
...noon one day last week, Ford workers in the mile-long Rouge plant were scheduled to get strike orders. Reuther and Bugas negotiated through the preceding night and into the morning. As noon neared, unshaved, rumpled newsmen who had waited up all night crammed into the corridor outside the conference room in the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Inside, after 26 hours of hard bargaining, Reuther and Bugas stood up during a brief break and stared silently at each other. Reuther, who had won his principle, as planned, suddenly grinned and held out his hand. "You've got a deal. Johnny...
...foundations made statements of their own in defense of their position. "The Ford Foundation has not used nay of its resources for un-American or subversive activities." H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., Foundation president, testified. "Nor have we used any of our resources for political purposes, propaganda, or attempts to influence legislation...