Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. He assigned a hard-faced ex-sailor, Harry Bennett, to guard his empire. Heads were cracked. In 1932 four jobless marchers were killed outside the Rouge plant. He defied the New Deal. But in 1941, he capitulated. He signed a union-shop contract, something of which even Walter Reuther in his wildest moments had not dreamed...
Last week Labor Leaders William Green, Philip Murray and Walter Reuther stamped across the turkey-red rug. Green refused to admit that there had been any abuses by labor of its power. Murray declaimed: "Rape is being perpetrated on the people." Reuther declared: "Free enterprise will survive only if it can be made to work...
...Auto Workers, once the nation's biggest, healthiest union, was in deep trouble. Its inter-union political warfare, fed by the bitter, bloody, still-unsettled Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. u), had reached the point where left-backed Vice President R. J. Thomas and right-wing President Walter Reuther were calling each other union wreckers...
...from Feb. 15 to April 30. With any threat of a steel strike postponed, Congress was less likely to rush restrictive labor laws. Meantime, also, management might find where it stood in the "portal-to-portal" pay controversy (see BUSINESS). The same day, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther made a similar 30-day deal with Chrysler...
...Detroit, Walter Reuther made his demands on Chrysler: 23½? more an hour, with enough fringe raises to bring the total to 30?. In Pittsburgh, Phil Murray was dickering for a "substantial increase" for his steelworkers. Now, as last year, labor insisted that higher living costs must be met with higher wages...