Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salter insists on deliberate use of the word / as much as possible (his book is full of it). Mock modesty is all nonsense: "Express agreement when you are praised." Finally, "Don't plan. Live for the next minute . . . and tomorrow will take care of itself...
...with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing a non-contributory pension plan from Ford last week...
...other pressure points are being hammered by unionists John L. Lowis and William Green. Lewis, always pretty much of a maverick, has been attacking Murray for dropping the fourth-round wage demands that the mineworkers are after. (They already have a non-contributory pension plan.) Green, AF of L head, is using the same reason to knock Murray's handling of the CIO--like Lewis, he doesn't think much of presidential fact-finding boards, and is using Murray's acceptance of the report as a club to attack...
...them, it could be made to look like betrayal--if the United Electrical Workers' propagandists make enough noise. And in the background is Reuther, the bright boy from Detroit, who would certainly like the presidency of the whole CIO. Reuther is very available indeed; he has the Ford pension plan in his hip pocket to show some concrete gains while Murray is still wrestling with Big Steel...
...president cannot give in on pensions: to keep his standing in union circles he will have to hold out for a plan entirely financed by industry. Should he do otherwise, Lewis and Reuther will be on his neck. If he does follow this course, industry and the public will go after him. It looks like a rough month for him either way--but the squeeze from his own people must be more compelling than the pinch from industry...