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WHEN TIME did its first cover on Labor Leader WALTER P. REUTHER (Dec. 3, 1945), the researcher on the story was Blanche Finn. Last week, as NATIONAL AFFAIRS Writer George de Carvalho wrote the second Reuther cover, his researcher also was Blanche Finn. In between, she worked on cover stories about the A.F.L.'s late President WILLIAM GREEN, the C.I.O.'s late President PHILIP MURRAY, the A.F.L.'s new President GEORGE MEANY, the Musicians' JAMES C. PETRILLO and the Maritime Union's JOE CURRAN, among others. As a result, she is on a first-name...
When Walter Reuther first went to Detroit, he was 19 years old and not quite sure of himself-a youthful weakness that he has long since corrected...
...Detroit Y.M.C.A. questionnaire which he filled out in 1927, he wanted to be either 1) a chicken farmer or 2) a labor leader. Within a decade, he was leading thousands of men in the great sitdown strikes of Depression-era Detroit. By now, restless, redheaded, hard-driving Walter Reuther, who could never have confined himself long to a hen house, has reached the top of the heap in the alternate career: he has more personal power-although not more popularity-than any other leader of U.S. labor...
...Reuther runs-with managerial efficiency-the largest U.S. labor union: the 1,500,000-man C.I.O. United Automobile Workers (U.A.W.); he has signed up 250,000 new workers in the last four years. Last week he achieved a triumph and a great victory for labor, winning from Ford Motor Co. a form of guaranteed semiannual wage for laid-off workers. This week he wrung similar terms from General Motors, the world's greatest manufacturing corporation...
Where to Pioneer. At a closed meeting of union delegates in Detroit's Tuller Hotel last week. Reuther told how he set out to establish the guaranteed annual wage (G.A.W.) in the automobile industry: "We decided General Motors was the easiest place to get money from, because it has the most, but the most difficult to pioneer with on principle. Ford is the easiest place to make progress on principle. So we decided on the strategy of implementing the principle we expected to establish at Ford with the money we get from...