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...Socialism failed miserably in Australia, is now a failure in Great Britain, and the welfare state Great Society presumes to take my money and yours to bail out Mr. Wilson. Question: When Johnson, Humphrey, Reuther & Co. are through with the U.S., who bails us out? JAMES D. TILFORD JR. Palm Beach...
...Reuther plans to exact similar concessions from Ford and General Motors on the question of U.S.-Canadian parity. He will get his chance at Ford during upcoming negotiations covering its Canadian workers. G.M. is the only one of the Big Three that has yet to come to terms with the union on a national contract. As the richest, it may hold out against some of Reuther's demands-even to the point of risking a strike. But Reuther, cheered by last week's settlement, predicted that "there is a Chrysler in both Ford and G.M.'s futures...
...workers seemed likely to ratify their national settlement. Under the terms, the $4.64 an hour the average worker now gets in wages and benefits would rise over a three-year period by almost a dollar, virtually the same increase agreed on at Ford. Beyond that, U.A.W. Boss Walter Reuther and his aide Douglas Fraser won some extras, notably a Chrysler commitment to raise the wages of its 11,000 Canadian workers over the next 30 months to the same level as those of U.S. workers, who now earn an average 34? an hour more...
...Ford Motor Co. strike was 53 days old last week when United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and Company Negotiator Malcolm Denise finally signed a new three-year labor contract. That done, Ford announced that it lost $73.9 million during 1967's third quarter, compared with a $65.8 million profit for the same period last year. It was the biggest earnings setback since Ford went public in 1956, and the strike was obviously to blame. But troubling though the deficit was, Ford should make up most of its losses with a surge of sales to customers who waited...
...Pattern. The new pattern is already emerging. Reuther's 7% will almost certainly spread through the auto industry, and from there to industries less able to afford it. The ink had hardly dried on the Ford contract when the U.A.W. exacted a similar settlement from Caterpillar Tractor Co., which was the first of five farm-equipment makers to face contract negotiations this year. And the United Steelworkers Union last week cranked up for contract talks soon to begin with can manufacturers by issuing a policy paper outlining a Ford-style settlement. For his part Reuther's next task...