Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor Reuther of C.I.O.: "I don't think the manpower recommendation from Washington was justified. We can step up production by increasing our use of manpower...
...emphasize Victor Reuther's opinion, his brother, Walter Reuther, has come forward with a plan for establishing "full employment" for Detroit and all war industries. Claiming that absenteeism and labor discontent are largely due to the fact that many men are asked to work only in spurts, Walter Reuther proposes drastic remedies: 1) establishment of regulations that all war plants must provide 40-hr.-week employment now, and later a 48-hr, week, with full payment for overtime; 2) a national wage policy which will guarantee to all war plant employes who work less than 40 hours per week...
Lund was a compromise. C.I.O. leaders had hoped the President would appoint their little redheaded big shot, Walter Reuther. A.F. of L. bosses wanted almost anyone else. When Lund was suggested, they settled in jigtime...
Ever since Reuther's labor-management committees proved successful in converting the automobile industry into defense plants, Philip Murray has been plugging to have the same system used in all defense industries. And, on March 2, Donald Nelson said we would have to raise our war output 25 per cent, and that he favored the Murray plan as one way to do it. Then, on March 8, management got its chance to kill the Murray plan. On that day, the New Jersey CIO declared that the Jersey war plants were utilizing "only 49 per cent of their productive capacity," mainly...
...most interesting things to see," remarked Miss Lee, "was a development in American trade unions which went beyond wage negotiations and labor conditions to a consideration of problems of production and control, under Phil Murray and young men like Walter Reuther, who have made themselves production experts in key defense industries...