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A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers' Walter P. Reuther, and other leaders of big labor have publicly or privately expressed their disgust with the Teamsters' defiance of the Senate. This week, as united labor's executive council meets in Miami Beach for its midwinter powwow, the Fifth-Amendment issue is slated to be, as George Meany puts it, "the first order of business...
...plant. Technically, AEC was to decide if a privately financed 100,000-kw. reactor being built at Monroe, Mich, will endanger the lives and health of more than 2,500,000 residents of nearby Detroit and Toledo. But proponents of public power, spearheaded by United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, wanted to turn the hearings into a decisive round in the running battle over whether nuclear-generated electricity is to be pioneered by the Government or by U.S. industry. On the ground that the plant was too risky, they wanted AEC to halt the project, move it to a remote...
...Promise & Doubt. Target of the Reuther forces was the Power Reactor Development Co., a combine of Detroit Edison Co., 17 other private utilities and seven manufacturing firms, which will finance and operate the $45.5 million Monroe plant under the leadership of Detroit Edison President Walker Lee Cisler. P.R.D.C. is building the first commercial "fast-breeder" reactor, the type most likely to produce competitively cheap atom power, since it produces more atom fuel than it consumes. Late in 1955, the first experimental fast breeder ran out of control at the National Reactor Testing Station, melted its own fuel with more than...
Although about 1,200,000 members of the United Auto Workers are cushioned by a cost-of-living escalator in their contract that contributes substantially to the wage-price spiral, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther wrote President Eisenhower an indignant letter last month inveighing against inflation-which he blamed on "price gouging" and "unconscionable profiteering" by "guilty corporations." Last week, speaking to the U.A.W.'s Skilled Trades Conference in Chicago, Reuther vowed that in 1958 his U.A.W. would "win the highest economic wage concessions we have ever won . . . We cannot convince General Motors to part with its millions by pious...
RETIRED WORKERS' benefits may be next big bargaining goal of U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, a follow-up to guaranteed-annual-wage, cost-of-living escalator clauses. U.A.W. has named 15 geriatrics experts to work out program. Committee will call for better medical care, housing for retired workers...