Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of the settlement, when it came, would not be satisfactory to such labor ideologists as Walter Reuther. Leading C.I.O.'s fight in the auto industry, Reuther wanted higher wages without higher prices. But Murray, while he had argued that the steel industry could give him his raise without upping prices, had also said: "At the moment prices are none of my damn business...
...postwar facts of life, U.S. labor leaders reacted in various ways. Cautious Bill Green preferred to fight the battle vicariously. John Lewis, whose best chance to regain his old place as No. 1 man is for somebody else to make a mistake, chose the waiting game. Walter Reuther, labor's high priest of economics and ideology, stepped out in front with a bold attempt to turn a simple argument over rates into a complicated economic crusade...
...stared quietly at the men he had called around him: the United Electrical Workers' big, red-faced Albert Fitzgerald; the Auto Workers' paunchy R. J. Thomas and lithe Walter Reuther; all the other C.I.O. brass. He told them, bluntly and plainly, who was going to run the C.I.O.'s strike strategy in the coming critical weeks...
...talking directly at Walter Reuther: he did not approve of Reuther's propaganda in the General Motors strike. Scrappy Walter Reuther talked back. Mild R.J. Thomas snapped back at Reuther. And Murray won his point: wages are the union's business, prices...
...always, Walter Reuther was quick to reply. As often, he sounded more hurt than angry. Said he: "The company ... is not arguing with the union, they are arguing with the panel and . . . with the President of the United States. ... If General Motors doesn't like his policy they will have an opportunity at the next election to elect someone that they do think reflects their kind of economics...