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...battle lines formed last week for the greatest labor-management struggle in years. The issue was the guaranteed annual wage, a proposition to which C.I.O. President Walter Reuther said that his auto workers are "irrevocably committed." The auto industry is just as strongly opposed-at least to Reuther's plan...
...Morally Right." To Walter Reuther, the auto workers' demands are "economically sound, morally right and socially responsible." He claims that the U.A.W. can produce dollar figures on the auto industry to prove "excess profits" and ability to pay for G.A.W. But so far, the auto workers have talked only in generalities...
...march of the robots seemed so swift that C.I.O. President Walter Reuther warned direly of the "depression and chaos" that automation might cause if not instituted under a broad plan. But in the long run automation was bound to boost the standard of living by increasing productivity and creating new jobs in the building and maintaining of the new machines. Said another C.I.O. boss, the late Philip Murray, in 1951: "I do not know of a single, solitary instance where a great technological gain has taken place in the U.S. that it has actually thrown people out of work...
Quill, having made his noise and taken his public spanking, voted for Reuther's resolution praising the work of the C.I.O. Political Action Committee in its "traditional nonpartisan manner...
President Walter Reuther called on the White House to back up Mitchell. But the next day, in his press conference, President Eisenhower made it clear that Mitchell did not represent the Administration view. It was plain that the matter would drop there. Secretary Mitchell had no intention of proposing legislation that would abrogate the state laws against union shops...