Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy: 1) press the fight for price control for another 30 days, 2) if prices continued to rise, reopen wage clauses on a national scale. Then Walter Reuther, obviously hoping that the Decontrol Board was listening, threatened to reopen the Chrysler contract...
Strikes had swept the country. The President's attempt to bring management and labor together in conference ended in fiasco. Walter Reuther shut down General Motors, Phil Murray shut down steel, and by January there were more people on strike than ever before in U.S. history. On April Fool's Day John Lewis shut the soft coal mines and the next month Messrs. Whitney & Johnston stopped the railroads...
...Grocer. While Congress sat in stalemate over OPA, the wondering. U.S. waited, too. In Detroit's Cadillac Square the United Auto Workers' fiery Walter Reuther called on a huge rally of consumers to wage a buyers' strike on meat until price controls were restored. (Demonstrating C.I.O. members in Cleveland jostled placards which promised: "I won't buy you anything but love, baby.") All over the nation, housewives talked up to their grocers. Wholesale prices on meat, butter and poultry fell off from post-OPA highs...
Ever since blonde, bouncy Martha Rountree sold the program to Mutual last October, it has been a radio headliner. On Meet the Press John L. Lewis threatened his chronic coal scuttle, and Walter Reuther described the General Motors strike the week his U.A.W. hit the street. Because the show has so often made good copy, wire service reporters now cover the broadcasts regularly. To 30-year-old Martha Rountree, radio's most successful woman producer, there is no higher compliment...
Said the autoworkers' Walter Reuther: "If our fight against increased prices fails we will begin a fight on the wage front."That fight, said Reuther, would be under taken only as a "last resort." Labor now realizes that wage boosts mean price boosts, that another such game of leap frog can end only in the wild inflation that everyone dreads. Labor also knows how to use the weapons of a war of nerves. But labor might be using those same weapons against itself...