Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders of the blitzed C.I.O. talked for the record. Up-&-coming Walter Reuther, vice president of the Automobile Workers, was outspoken. Said he: "In his campaign to build up an anti-Roosevelt, anti-war movement, Lewis must have a mass labor movement to work in. Having failed to build his own, he must now rejoin...
Shrewd Walter P. Reuther, U.A.W. vice president and one of organized labor's best brains, had sold the War Department the idea: if workers could fraternize with soldiers on soldiers' terms, there might be greater effort on the assembly lines. In Atterbury, Reuther led his 250 shop stewards and committeemen to waiting combat carriers. In the Sard's mess halls the newcomers dined heartily; marched to barracks. Lights went...
Back in civvies, the U.A.W. stumbled into a 4 a.m. return train to Detroit. The 83rd rank-&-file passed judgment: "Good guys." Said Walter Reuther: "We're going home tired in body but determined to give the boys in our fighting army the fighting equipment they need. The boys in the services have plenty of guts. We're determined to back them with plenty of sweat...
Labor Approves. Organized labor, in the persons of William Green and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, unreservedly approved; the plan was strikingly similar to a proposal made a month ago by Mr. Reuther (TIME, Feb. 1). But what would organized labor say when the firings began...
Occasioned by wartime conditions, and aimed against labor hoarding by corporations, Walter Reuther's suggestions may be a foretaste of many a labor proposal for maintaining full employment in peace. They likewise suggest many a problem. If pressure is applied against part-time employment, will not some men lose their jobs altogether? If firms are ordered to employ a given number of men on full-time pay, who is to decide when a firm should cut its production, or go out of business? Finally, can Government dictate employment short of full socialization...