Word: reuther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After picking Brussels as the new organization's permanent site, the congress adopted a manifesto setting forth its policies, and purposes. A committee under the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther drafted a text which managed to please both the T.U.C. and A.F.L. The slogans adopted...
...Young Upstarts. On hand to help launch the new organization was a platoon of top U.S. labor leaders, including aging William Green and dynamic David Dubinsky of the A.F.L., straight-talking Walter Reuther and diplomatic Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen...
Because there was free speech at the London conference, there were disputes. Hardly had the honeyed addresses of welcome ended when some delegates charged that Roman Catholic unions on the Continent, which have their own federation (International Federation of Christian Trade Unions), were being excluded from the new organization. Reuther patched up this fight by a compromise: the Catholic unions (which are among the toughest anti-Communist fighters on the Continent) would be invited to come in, but would have to quit or disband their own international organization within two years...
McCarthy said that Walter Reuther and Phillip Murray were using the communist issue as a shield in their attempt to shackle any unions who were opposing Reuther's bid to succeed Murray. He also accused the right wingers "of making the CIO a tail to the Democratic party...
Swinging his crippled arm, the triumphant anti-Communist leader, Walter Reuther, hooted at him: "All I can say, Harry, is that your halo is on crooked today...