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...packing cork insulation around water heaters; he was fired for trying to organize a union. Later he went to work for 75? an hour at the Chrysler De Soto plant, but left the shop floor to become a union staffer in 1947 and, shortly thereafter, one of Walter Reuther's right-hand men. When Reuther died in 1970, Fraser competed closely with Leonard Woodcock for the presidency. Woodcock won a narrow majority in the U.A.W. vote board; Fraser withdrew and urged that the election be made unanimous. That gracious gesture perhaps ensured his own election...
...have reform in the Teamsters." Brill points out that the course was set long ago, when Jimmy Hoffa cooperated with organized crime to achieve power in the union, when he acquiesced and participated in the corruption, extortion, and violence that cemented his power. If Walter Reuther, organizing the United Auto Workers at the same time and in the same city as Hoffa, didn't need the Mafia and their kind of tactics then Hoffa didn't either. Hoffa chose his own poison...
Fraser, who was a close associate of former UAW president Walter Reuther, has been a leader of the left-wing within the labor movement along with such often-isolated progressives as Jerry Wurf of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and William Wimpisinger of the International Union of Machinists...
...wail of the sitar sounded throughout the service, and the bride's jeweled nose pin glittered in the ceremonial firelight. It was the Hindu wedding, in East Detroit, of Lekhasravanti (nee Elizabeth Louise Reuther), 30, daughter of the late Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and her fellow Hare Krishna member, Bhusaya (Bruce Dickmeyer), 27. The best man: Ambarish, 27, otherwise known as Alfred Ford, great-grandson of Henry I. No other Fords were in sight, but the bride's uncles Victor and Ted Reuther gamely padded around in their socks and joined the festivities. Said...
...that the union's principles can be perpetuated only by a new generation of leaders. "We have plenty of talent out in the plants and in the shops," he says. "We have to nurture it." Time is running out: by 1983, when Fraser must retire, every one of Reuther's close associates in the U.A.W.'s leadership will have reached retirement age as well...