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Sadlowski has the backing of Ralph Nader, Victor Reuther (brother of the late Walter), liberal Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, who gives money to liberal causes. Most established labor chiefs, like George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, oppose Sadlowski...
When it comes to internal politics, the United Auto Workers is the Switzerland of the labor world-no coups, no bareknuckled infighting, just a neat, orderly succession from one leadership to the next. This relatively halcyon condition dates from the late 1940s, when Walter Reuther, the progressive ideologue who headed the union for 24 years, built a durable power base. After Reuther's death in an airplane crash in 1970, two men vied for his mantle: Leonard Woodcock, the intellectual chief of the union's General Motors division, and Reuther's apparent favorite, Chrysler Department Head Douglas...
...open, scan and photograph the letters. Anyone whose name was on a "watch list" had his mail opened if it was sent to or came from the Soviet Union. The committee revealed three names on the eclectic list: Biologist Linus Pauling, the left-leaning Nobel laureate; Labor Leader Victor Reuther; and John Steinbeck, the late novelist...
What makes Meany's present eminence even more remarkable is the fact that some of his critics in the labor movement were saying that he was an anachronism 20 years ago. Meany's archenemy was Walter Reuther, the fiery and eloquent head of the United Auto Workers, who was the great reforming force in American labor after World War II. Second only to Meany in power, Reuther wanted the AFL-CIO to fight harder to recruit new members and to crusade more. Stubbornly, Meany took a pragmatic, go-slow approach ("ideology is baloney," he says). Bitter with frustration...
Patrick E. Gorman, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America; David Selden, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Victor Reuther, former international-affairs director of the United Automobile Workers; Irving Howe, editor of Dissent magazine; and historian Christopher Lasch were among those who signed the appeal for a convention...