Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, red-haired Walter Reuther, scorning a hat but bundled up in overcoat and muffler, mounted a sound truck and went out to hearten the strikers. He did not try to paint a rosy picture. He reminded them that no strike benefits would be paid by the union, but in time there would be soup kitchens and the union would send a doctor to any member who needed...
...will travel the road to the bitter end," cried Walter Reuther, "because we know we are right and are willing to fight for what is right...
That certainly sounded like old times. And Reuther assured the strikers again & again that it was just "an old-fashioned strike...
Frame the Case. As much as a strike of 175,000 men & women could be said to be the work of one man, it was the work of Walter Reuther. As director of the U.A.W.'s General Motors division, he had planned it, and worked out the moves. He phrased the declaration of war, devised the arguments, the headline-making statements, and also-like any general-left the way open for strategic retreat. He had called the strike even though the U.A.W. president, bumbling R. J. Thomas, thought it should be postponed...
...Reuther: Nothing could be more asinine than to destroy G.M. and destroy the job opportunities with G.M. We want G.M. to be the most prosperous company in this industry...