Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Reuther was elected to the presidency of the Auto Workers in this very convention hall a year ago last March. I was here. I took his good little right hand in mine and I patted his red locks. 'Walter,' I said . . . 'Walter, I am going to support you.' He said, 'Phil...
Delegates to the United Auto Workers' convention listened politely to the paternal, burr-flecked voice. Words were inadequate, said C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray, to express the good will he felt toward that splendid little redhead, Walter Reuther. Over the mike in Atlantic City's cavernous Convention Hall, he purred...
Most of the 2,000 delegates had longer memories than aging Phil Murray. They recalled that last year, when Walter Reuther could best have used a boost from Murray, he got a shove instead. What actually happened in the hectic U.A.W. presidential race of 1946 was that Murray had endorsed bumbling R. J. Thomas, stooge of the union's left-wingers. Reuther had won only by the narrowest of margins, and the left-wingers had captured all the union's other top jobs, plus control of the executive board. Phil Murray had gloated: "Reuther has been contained...
...leftists knew that they had no chance to sway the convention. They had come primed to fight for the re-election of bumbling R. J. Thomas as a C.I.O. vice president, and thus build up his efforts to take the presidency of the U.A.W. away from redheaded Walter Reuther. But the leftists never got their fists up. Phil Murray, taking note of rumors that Thomas was plotting with John L. Lewis to take the autoworkers out of the C.I.O., called Thomas in and bluntly told them he was through as a C.I.O. top officer. When his nomination came up, Thomas...
Sued, by C.I.O.'s Walter P. Reuther: a new Detroit periodical which he charged linked him with Rabble-Rouser Gerald L. K. Smith. U.A.W. President Reuther figured he had been libeled $500,000 worth...