Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While Reuther kept the spotlight playing on the company's profits rather than on labor's earnings, G.M.'s Vice President Harry Anderson was frequently reduced to snorting exclamations. Sample...
...there by the U.A.W. strategy, which had singled it out as the first target to strike. But as the G.M. strike entered its fifth week and the language on both sides grew more violent, G.M.'s negotiators were no match for U.A.W.'s fiery, eloquent Walter Reuther...
Back in Detroit, on the 15th floor of the General Motors Building, G.M.'s grey, aloof President Charles E. Wilson held a 90-minute press conference in which he took some of the play-and the headlines -away from U.A.W. and Strike Tactician Walter Reuther. He made it unmistakably clear that G.M. had no intention of backing down...
...Wilson's charge of blockade, Tactician Walter Reuther shouted: "Unbelievable arrogance." But it took more than invective to ruffle G.M. Over the weekend the company scored another point in the battle of wits, and seriously disrupted union unity...
...Reuther: Because unless we get a more realistic distribution of America's wealth, we won't get enough to keep this machine going...