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...Detroit, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther, who wants a Democratic Congress elected in November and also wants a guaranteed annual wage written into new labor contracts, has been loudly crying crisis. Last week Guy Nunn, a radio commentator sponsored by Reuther's United Automobile Workers, spoke of "bread lines," "soup kitchens," and "long lines of unemployed" in Detroit. Pressed to point them out, Nunn could find only one-at the Capuchin Charity Guild, where for years the monks have given daily handouts for anyone who shows...
Barnstorming through Illinois last week, opening his campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate, Democrat Paul Douglas was raising his voice in chorus with Reuther and Beck. Said he: "The Republicans call it a 'rolling readjustment,' a 'slight contraction.' I don't know who they think they're fooling . . . How well
Then he got down to cases: "What motivates Walter Reuther? What prompted Adlai Stevenson's 'fear' speech? Could Senator Paul Douglas be worried about election year? . . . Just what is Wayne Morse and his one-man party contributing to the welfare of the country? Yet, this quartet rides like the Four Horsemen, spreading gloom and doom across the land . . . The left wing in America regards a depression as its one-way ticket into power...
...President's most controversial proposal is that the Government should hold secret polls of employees on whether they want to strike. Since most unions already conduct such polls on their own, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther was affronted. He labeled the plan "the most vicious strikebreaking weapon ever devised." Actually most labor specialists agree that the plan would be costly, unwieldy and no help to collective bargaining. And it would get the Government deeper into disputes, instead of getting it out, which is Ike's avowed policy...
Youth Wants to Know (Sun. i p.m., NBC). Interview with C.I.O. President Walter Reuther...