Word: reuther
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...Teachers have repeatedly pressed their locals to end bias. Many other union leaders insist that they must move slowly or be voted out of office by white members who consider the Negro's rise a threat to their own status and security. Disputing that belief, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther argues that on-the-job friction between white and Negro workers reflects poor leadership. "Where there is a moral commitment and initiative by labor leaders," says Reuther, "there will be no trouble with the rank and file...
...practice it. Packing sheds have been set afire, foremen threatened, tires slashed. Chavez also has outside help. Long-haired pickets came down from Berkeley in the early days of la huelga, and the union gets $14,500 a month in grants from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers. By insisting that all workers join his union, moreover, Chavez wants what amounts to a closed shop (which is illegal under the Taft-Hartley Act, but the act does not apply to agricultural workers). This means that, for now at least, Chavez's goal, however unpalatable...
...York City. Marianne Moore, D.LET., poet. Walter P. Reuther, LL.D., president...
...Reuther has been president of the United Auto Workers since 1946. In 1952, he became president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and when the CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955, Reuther was named president of the CIO division...
...Reuther, who has become a national labor leader after starting as an apprentice tool maker in 1924, has received many honorary degrees but never graduated from college. Before beginning his work in industry, Reuther spent three years at Wayne University...