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TIME'S story on Walter Reuther [June 20] ... is in itself G.A.W. (Grand Award Writing). Chalk up a victory against Communist propaganda, which keeps yowling about the dirty deals capitalists give labor. Chalk up a victory for common sense, which averted a disastrous auto strike. And chalk up a victory for the nation as a whole, because a stabilized wage means a more stabilized economy...
...their G.A.W. victory the seamen could give much of the credit to the breakthrough at Ford Motor Co. by Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. As for the U.A.W. itself, it wasted no time in pressing on to the next automaker with an expiring contract: American Motors...
...Three, and its books are just beginning to show a profit (v. a $654,390 loss in 1955's first quarter). But last week the U.A.W. made it clear that the independents must follow the Ford-General Motors pattern. Said Leonard Woodcock, U.A.W. vice president and Reuther's chieftain for American Motors: American's auto workers need G.A.W. "even more than the bigger firms because of its ups and downs in employment...
...Worlds to Conquer. The auto workers also stepped up the pressure on another big industry: farm equipment. John Deere & Co. has already gone through three bargaining sessions over G.A.W., and the union is demanding nothing less than a contract like the one at Ford. Reuther has also notified International Harvester Co. and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., whose contracts expire in August, that the U.A.W.'s new contract demands will include G.A.W...
...Scripps-Howard chain: The key factor, we think, is productivity. If, as Reuther contends, this modified version of his original proposal will encourage stability in the auto industry, then there is no ground for skepticism. But if it is turned into a device by which workers get paid for not working, the economic consequences could be disastrous for workers as well as employers...