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Time and success have mellowed both Reuther and the mass movement that swept up the distressed workers of Detroit two decades ago. Ford workers average $106 weekly; economic desperation no longer harasses the men for reasons beyond their ken. Union conventions, once rough and fiery, now seem like Rotary meetings. In 1945 the G.M. strike began with the class-struggle refrain, Solidarity Forever. This month's strike threat brought forth, instead, over the U.A.W. radio program, a comic song directed at Henry Ford II: Dance With Me, Henry...
Sample lyrics: "You better feel that boogie beat, and get the lead out of your feet." Reuther still uses some of the old mechanical cliches of class-struggle philosophy. But he is too alert a man not to realize how much he has won for his followers within the framework of capitalism-and how much the picture holds within that same framework. In a recent speech Reuther said: "Movements release tremendous emotional forces, and they get into motion great dynamic qualities; then they tend to dissipate themselves. They sort of spend themselves. You always need to find...
...wonder why United States labor is so enthusiastic about a competitive economic system. The settlement at Ford should help supply the answer. The principal factor in Ford's decision was its desire to stay out in front in the race for mastery of the low-price automobile field. Reuther avoided the slogans of class warfare that were so much a part of the union's formative years two decades ago. The company was equally careful not to maneuver itself into "do-or-die" positions. The performance on both sides was a heartening exhibition of industrial maturity...
...York Post: The agreement between the Ford Motor Co. and the Auto Workers Union is a landmark of industrial democracy in the U.S. According to the ancient Marxist cliches, the union's demand should have precipitated a long and violent class struggle. Walter Reuther was advancing a proposition that would have been generally considered revolutionary two decades ago. There will be diehards who call young Mr. Ford a "traitor to his class." But in the history books he will be remembered for a contribution to the social engineering of this century as momentous as the mechanical wizardry...
...Angeles Times: The contract boosts labor costs, will be additional incentive to the company to spend money for automation. Thus what Reuther has won may not be more pay for all his members, but more pay for a smaller proportion...