Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an evening of warm-up speeches, they went into closed session in the Willard Hotel's Congressional Room. When they emerged they had a name (Americans for Democratic Action), a bankroll ($9,-300), and a 25-man organizing committee, loaded with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson...
Thus, when C.I.O.'s three biggest bosses -the Steelworkers' Phil Murray, Auto Workers' Walter Reuther and Electrical Workers' Albert Fitzgerald-met in Pittsburgh last week to set a common bargaining policy, they exuded sweet reasonableness. Only a year ago, all three of them had gone out on defiant strike. Now the theme in Big Labor was peace-at almost any price...
Murray's Steelworkers and Fitzgerald's electrical workers decided to make no specific demand for a flat wage increase. But redheaded, aggressive Walter Reuther was already out on a limb; he had announced a demand for 23½? more an hour for his auto workers...
...would also be a big day, though in a different way, for redheaded Walter Reuther, the combustible president of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He had a huge surprise for his four-year-old daughter Linda-a tiny electric phonograph with two albums of miniature records. And he was due for a surprise himself. His wife, May, would have sour cream pancakes for breakfast in their neat, white Detroit home...
Murray and Reuther, at least, do not want to strike. They recognize the disastrous possibilities of another series of work stoppages such as shook the economy last year. But they are in this thing up to their necks. The strike is virtually their only weapon and, if they insist on getting what they are now demanding, they might ultimately have to resort...