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Pointing specifically at the A.D.A., the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council and U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther as those who ran first and fastest (TIME, Aug. 19), Mitchell traced the recent history of the civil rights bill: "The House sent President Eisenhower's sound civil rights bill to the Senate with its approval. The Senate then, in the words of Dr. Ralph Bunche, made the bill 'disappointingly weak' by crippling that provision which would ensure equal voting rights for all Americans . . . And then, before the House had a chance to make any move to put strength back...
...nine representatives of "100% civil rights or bust" organizations met secretly one morning last week. Among those present: Vice Chairman Joseph Rauh Jr. of Americans for Democratic Action; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; spokesmen for United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and International Electrical Workers President James Carey. The Hobsonian choice before these good liberals: whether to support a civil rights bill that had been so weakened by the Senate's Democratic leadership that the South was putting up only token opposition (TIME, Aug. 12) or to fight...
...Driver's Seat. Zakman got his charter to "organize the unorganized" from the United Automobile Workers, A.F.L. (no kin to Walter Reuther's U.A.W.-C.I.O.), later known as the Allied Industrial Workers. Who put up the money for office rent and expenses? Dio. Who became the local's business manager? Dio. Zakman began to feel put upon: Racketeer Dio was padding the local's payroll with his own boys, among them an organizer named Benny ("The Bug") Ross...
...Detroit the latest evidence of creeping inflation promptly provoked a new hassle between management and labor over the question: Do wages push up prices or do prices push up wages? Ford Motor Co.'s Vice President John S. Bugas, eying Walter Reuther's promise to win his United Auto Workers a shorter work week and "a hell of a lot" more money in 1958, put much of the blame for the current inflation on labor's demands for ever higher wages and fringe benefits. Argued Bugas: since 1954 wage packages have exceeded 5% annually in key industries...
With this estimate Walter Reuther took angry exception. Cried he: "Our present inflation is a rigged inflation based on prices arbitrarily set by a handful of executives of the major corporations who fix prices to maximize their profits rather than production and employment." Even ex-Socialist Reuther knew better than that. But what was encouraging in the hassle was that both management and labor-each understandably edgy about the rising criticism of the upward spiral-were so anxious to defend their positions before the public. From such edginess could come a new caution which ultimately should benefit management, labor...