Word: reuthers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became something unique in American labor-a regional prince whose power and interests extended far beyond the confines of labor and into the entire life of his community. Unlike Walter Reuther, Phil Murray and John Lewis, he had no yearnings to become a political power, or to take part in plotting a political labor party. The demands of his own principality, where he was supreme, were enough to occupy his time...
...Durham, N.C., U.A.W. Boss Walter Reuther was up again after a complicated "exploratory" operation on his shotgun-blasted right arm. A friend who watched the operation reported: "The doctor feels very good about the whole thing...
After six months, Detroit's amateur detectives and junior G-men had almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...
Miller declared that a few weeks before the shooting, Bolton had offered him and an associate $13,000 "to bump off Walter Reuther." They refused. A couple of days before Reuther was shot, Bolton came to Miller's home, asked for two shotguns. Bolton left with the guns, saying: "I've got to borrow the typewriters. I've got to get rid of a red-haired Communist son of a bitch...
Hunt saw Beck finally locking horns with the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther "for control of American labor." If Beck won the fight, Hunt predicted, the U.S. might be in for something: "Beck abhors regimentation by government. He favors it by Beck. Beck's philosophy of labor relations envisages one big man in labor sitting down with one big man in industry to write the ticket...