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...Price." Wearing worried frowns, the top brass of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council-speaking for 15 million organized workers-gathered around their huge, elliptical conference table in Washington to survey the damage and see what they could do. "There are too many people," said the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, "who will use this current expose of Teamsters' corruption to exploit their own purposes-to try to restrict the entire labor movement." The Electrical Workers' Jim Carey added: "It is absolutely necessary that we denounce and renounce such characters or we will pay a terrible price for permitting...
...Reuther Emphasizes Labor Role in World Affairs...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., April 7--Walter P. Reuther today accused the leadership of the free world with failure to understand the dimensions of war and peace and described the labor movement as the vanguard in the struggle against "Communist tyranny...
Perhaps the most significant reaction came from a non-Teamster: the No. 2 man in U.S. labor, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther. Said Reuther in Detroit: "I believe that Mr. Beck's use of union funds to further his own personal investments is highly improper, inexcusable and morally indefensible." As for Brewster, Reuther said that if 10% of what the McClellan committee heard about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced...
...Roulette Room of Miami Beach's Monte Carlo Hotel one morning last week, the leaders of big labor closed in on the chief of their biggest affiliate, hefty, bullet-headed Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000 Teamsters. With the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther looking over his shoulder, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany laid it on the line: "Look, Dave, you brought this on yourselves. We wouldn't have had to take this up now if you guys hadn't refused to testify...