Word: mazey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power and its new responsibility, want in its own field? To some, it looked as if the answer was simply that it wanted a hand in management. Answering Henry Ford II's statement that a fourth round of wages would necessitate higher prices, the U.A.W.'s Emil Mazey declared: "Our bargaining team can show Mr. Ford next spring that he can give a wage increase without raising the price of automobiles. Our experts will be glad to sit down with him and his associates, go over his books, and show him how this is possible...
...replace this left-wing triumvirate, the U.A.W. got a Reutherite secretary-treasurer, Emil Mazey, 34, tough and trigger-witted co-director of U.A.W. operations on Detroit's East Side; and two Reutherite vice presidents, plodding Richard Gosser, 46, of Toledo, and organizing expert John Livingston, 39, of St. Louis. Like Reuther, Mazey-who would henceforth be the U.A.W.'s No. 2 man-once held a card in the Socialist Party. He is a veteran of U.A.W. picket lines; as a G.I. he led a war's-end campaign to bring the boys home early from the Philippines...