Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Policy for Full Employment, written by Dr. John H. G. Pierson of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows how in general the views of such laborites as Clinton S. Golden (United Steelworkers), Marion H. Hedges (Electrical Workers), James Carey (C.I.O.), David Kaplan (Teamsters), George Meany (A.F. of L.), Walter Reuther (Automobile Workers), et al., compare with those of such managers as Beardsley Ruml, H. Christian Sonhe, Charles E. Wilson...
...good to be true: too handsome, too smooth, too patently on the make. Like other goodwilling gospelers of "cooperation" he dodges-or does not see-fundamental differences of opinion. In a New York Times Hall debate last week between Johnston and U.A.W.-C.I.O.'s shrewd ideologue, Walter Reuther of Detroit, Reuther proposed that Government continue to regiment business and labor in peace as in war, by a Peace Production Board. Johnston, intent on his gospel of cooperation, failed to denounce explicitly Reuther's attempt to confuse the necessities of total war and democratic peace...
...contributions from such heavyweights, high-priced or otherwise, as Hunter College President George Shuster, New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook, John Chamberlain, Max Eastman, Ferdinand Lundberg, the New York Times's Henry Hazlitt, Brooklyn College President Harry Gideonse, Lewis Mumford, Raymond Leslie Buell, William Green, Matthew Woll, Walter Reuther- some of whom would be outraged if they were called Socialists or leftists...
...though Phil Murray and his largest member union differed in detail, they were agreed on the main point. Summed up slender, serious Victor Reuther, U.A.W. resolutions chairman: "I do not believe that labor should make a blind date...
...Convention was not what it formally resolved but what it revealed of Labor's feuds and fears. The 2,100 delegates bet, finagled and politicked in smoke-filled hotel rooms like a typical U.S. political convention, and talked like Labor's Town Meeting. The delegates elected Walter Reuther first vice president over Communist-backed Dick Frankensteen by 345 votes, then turned round and elected Frankensteen second vice president over Reuther's nominee, Dick Leonard, by about 300 votes. Apparently the rank & file seemed to think they could best protect themselves by perpetuating the U.A.W.'s civil...