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...Walter Reuther ruled the annual C.I.O. convention in Los Angeles last week with the precise authority of a schoolmarm. His slate of officers (with himself as president) was re-elected without opposition; his resolution praising the committee on A.F.L.-C.I.O. unity was quickly passed; his ideas on many subjects from foreign affairs (against blockading Red China) to a guaranteed annual wage (he is for it) were approved...
Then the schoolmarm restored order. Patiently, Reuther recalled Lesson One: "Now to begin with, everyone who knows anything about the elementary facts of political history in America knows that third parties will get no one anywhere . . . We will get better results in New York when we have fewer press releases and more practical work in the neighborhoods in New York City. You cannot win political campaigns by making noise...
...C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers union wanted a raise in pay, angrily threatened a crippling strike to get it; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which runs the plants, turned down the demands. After a three-day strike last July, Labor Secretary James Mitchell and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther both pleaded for a settlement, but negotiations bogged down again; an 80-day injunction only postponed the inevitable showdown...
They took Walter Reuther...
Democratic national headquarters in Washington burned the wires to candidates, urging them not to play Wilson for laughs but to take the same earnest, humorless line as Reuther...