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Social Goals. Fraser, too, is an emblem of that unity. Like Woodcock, he is a man in the mold of Walter Reuther, the visionary U.A.W. president who was killed in an air crash seven years ago. Once a metal finisher in a De Soto plant, Fraser became a boy-wonder local president and was Reuther's administrative assistant for most of the 1950s. As a union vice president in 1970, he seemed a likely choice to inherit "the Redhead's" post, but lost out when the union's executive board recommended Woodcock by one vote. More gregarious...
Fraser will have quite a few things to work on too. For instance, he has pledged to continue the union's drive for a four-day work week. On another matter that once seemed equally important -reaffiliation with the AFL-CIO, from which Reuther defected in 1968-Fraser's mandate is less clear. The Los Angeles delegates voted to authorize union leaders to call a special convention within six months to consider the matter, but many members fear that reaffiliation would strip the U.A.W. of too much autonomy. Though contract bargaining time is two years off, Fraser...
...faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where he tried to boost membership by serving beer; at 30, he was an international representative; by 34, he had caught the eye of Reuther, who took him on as an administrative assistant...
...diet-Fraser should be more of a public personality than Woodcock. "Doug is much more charismatic than Leonard," says a friend of both men. "He's much more flamboyant." He is also a more forceful and engaging speaker, who is likely to follow more effectively in Reuther's path as an apostle of social change. He backed liberal Democrat Mo Udall in the primaries...
...crucial area Fraser might well subvert Reuther's legacy. In 1968 Reuther paraded his union out of the AFL-CIO, charging that the federation had become too conservative. Now the U.A.W. is tiptoeing toward reaffiliation. There are major stumbling blocks-the biggest is just how much autonomy the auto union could retain-but Fraser might conceivably preside over a reconciliation. If that happens, he could some day become a formidable contender...