Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finding boards; moreover, he was outraged by Murray's settle-or-I-shoot tactics. Murray had sounded his war cry so furiously that now he could not retreat an inch. Nor did Murray want to face the slightest possibility of another labor leader (i.e., John Lewis or Walter Reuther) getting a better settlement than he could...
...Ford II, after reading the steel fact finders' report, said in effect to his executives: "There's no reason why we should have this shoved down our throats. Let's take the lead on pensions." Last week Ford's Vice President John Bugas offered Walter Reuther an 8 3/4 ?-an-hour, company-financed pension...
...offer ended negotiations which had been going on for almost 100 days. Reuther happily accepted. By all indications, so would Ford workers when they voted on the proposal. By winning peace, Ford had won a lead in his increasingly competitive industry. By winning the contract, Reuther had gained a weapon to use against Chrysler...
...view when he dropped the wage demands and stuck merely to pensions; but his locals won't see it the same way as the public. To 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...