Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's demands, as usual, were for shorter hours and higher pay. Labor wanted to work less, spread employment and get the equivalent of wartime pay. The cost of living, labor pointed out, is still up. Said Walter Reuther, the auto workers' brain truster: full production, full employment and full distribution depend on keeping wages at their present level...
First Assault. Which automobile company would be the target for this all-out assault? For a day, the union kept mum on its choice. Then wily, redheaded Walter Philip Reuther, U.A.W. Vice President announced the first objective: General Motors Corp...
...Bombing. As the battle lines were drawn last week, the U.A.W. lined up its own general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...
...Reuther, boss of the union's G.M. division, and master strategist of the union, who blueprinted the attack on G.M. A onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...
While matters simmered, U.A.W. Vice President Walter Reuther began discussing interpretations of the no-strike pledge with representatives of Detroit's 350,000 U.A.W. members. Reuther's interpretation: that the pledge applies only to plants doing war work. This stand seemed to add new strike threats to automakers' other reconversion bogies. But labor said no-it would mean fewer strikes. Reason: collective bargaining machinery, which has rusted under cover of the war emergency, will again be used to settle disputes, thus avoiding needless walkouts...