Word: frasers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union for 24 years, built a durable power base. After Reuther's death in an airplane crash in 1970, two men vied for his mantle: Leonard Woodcock, the intellectual chief of the union's General Motors division, and Reuther's apparent favorite, Chrysler Department Head Douglas Fraser. When it seemed certain that Woodcock had garnered 13 of the U.A.W. executive board's 25 votes, Fraser bowed out gracefully. Last week he got his reward. Woodcock, who is 65 and must retire this year, announced that after consulting with him, the three other serious contenders...
Chief Asset. Though the U.A.W. will not bargain again with the auto industry until 1979, Fraser will soon face some stiff challenges. He must step up recruitment of new members to compensate for losses that the union has suffered because of automation of car plants and the move of many auto factories to Southern areas hostile to unionism. He also must placate the U.A.W.'s skilled workers, who are clamoring for the right to veto contracts even if they are acceptable to assembly line people. Fraser's chief asset in running the union will be his great popularity...
...sentiment came naturally: Fraser is a veteran of the auto plants. Born in Glasgow, he came to the U.S. at six. Though his electrician father managed to work on and off through the Depression, Fraser recalls hopping aboard slow-moving railroad gondolas to knock off a few chunks of coal to carry home for heating. After graduating from high school in Detroit, he went to work at Chrysler's De Soto plant and, faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where...
...topnotch businessman with a concern for social causes. He is a Democrat but not a big spender. He favors some national economic planning but not the amount called for by the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill. He is praised by labor leaders and businessmen alike. Says Douglas Fraser, a vice president of the United Auto Workers: "He is a very enlightened industrialist. His social values are solid, and he practices them...
Divorced. Hugh Fraser, 58. British Member of Parliament; and Lady Antonia Fraser, 43, bestselling author (Mary Queen of Scots Cromwell: The Lord Protector); after 20 years of marriage, six children; in London. Eraser's suit for divorce was not contested by Lady Antonia, who has been living with Playwright Harold Pinter for more than a year. Pinter's wife. Actress Vivien Merchant, named her Ladyship corespondent in a suit in 1975, but has since decided not to press for a divorce...