Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds & Reuther. The biggest Ford local, Detroit's No. 600, has yet to count its votes. U.A.W. Vice President Richard T. Leonard, who had bargained for the plan, still had a faint hope that the votes of its 62,000 members would save pensions...
...only a hope. The pension plan seemed doomed, and partly it was because of union politics. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther, an old enemy of Leonard's, was naturally jealous of the prestige which a pension plan might give his rival. So his henchmen, according to union gossip, quietly urged the plan's defeat. In this, they found themselves working with their arch enemies, the Communists. As long as they thought that Young Henry would not agree to pension, the Communists (who dominate Local 600) were for them. When Ford agreed to them, they turned against the whole business...
...national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent his name and presence. As for a trend, the Republicans could cite one: the Taft-Hartley Act is apparently not a liability to them, and it is going to take something more than demagoguery...
...their ears. The C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers had charged that present U.S. steel capacity (91 million tons a year) was about 20 million tons below future normal demands. The union demanded Government action to overcome the steelmakers' "smug and intransigent" hedging against a possible slump. Walter Reuther, president of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, had for months been accusing them of promoting "planned scarcity...
Last month, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther told a Senate committee that the steel industry had embarked on a program of "planned scarcity calculated to enhance profits and to fortify their monopoly." The charge was echoed by Henry Wallace's New Republic: "Despite the fact that other industries such as oil and container manufacturers are crying aloud that their work is hampered by a lack of steel, the steel industry has refused to expand . . . content with current high profits and fearful of another depression...