Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks wore on, with the Big Steel negotiators still at loggerheads, the biggest hope for a break appeared this week in an unexpected quarter. In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co. announced that it had offered the auto workers' Walter Reuther a company-paid pension plan in line with the recommendations of the steel board. Ford cautiously reported real progress, and Henry Ford II made plans to leave this week for Europe despite Reuther's peremptory announcement that he was issuing a strike notice, effective Sept. 29. If autos settled, there was still a good chance that steel would...
...report, accepted it without comment, hurriedly wired the disputants a plea for an eleven-day postponement of the strike deadline (Sept. 14) until everyone could give the findings "the greatest weight and most earnest consideration." One by one steelmakers began agreeing to the truce. The auto workers' Walter Reuther flew to Pittsburgh to sit at the elbow of Phil Murray as the elderly labor chief sat down for a careful study of the report...
Just because business was looking a little queasy, the U.A.W. was not going to go easy on it. Reuther came armed with studies showing, he said, that the industry could raise wages 70? an hour and still make 8% on its investment. Said Reuther in one huge gulp: "This is the time for labor to stand up and say we are getting in trouble because the little guy hasn't got enough and therefore he has to fight harder now to get what he is entitled to in order to avoid going into a depression...
Just a Brother. Reuther was careful to avoid any show of steamroller tactics. Anyhow, the noisy left-wing opposition of past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...
...week's end, the delegates disbanded in high spirits. Said Walter Reuther with deep satisfaction: "This is the most serious and most constructive convention we ever had." A Ford strike was now a definite possibility...