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Auto Workers' hard-driving Walter Reuther won last year's fight with 54% of the vote, and afterwards rumors floated about that some lesser C.I.O. chieftains were restive, that the C.I.O. was coming apart at the seams, that Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald was getting ready to join up with the A.F.L. Teamsters' Dave Beck and the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis in a new labor federation...
Powerful Ally. The strikers have been organized by the A.F.L.'s struggling National Agricultural Workers' Union, have the full support of both A.F.L. and C.I.O. (last week the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther sent them a check for $5,000). They have an even more powerful ally in the Roman Catholic Church, which is strong in Louisiana. Priests from New Orleans and the local parishes have given their active support to the strikers, and the Catholic Committee of the South has publicly called on growers to meet with the union's representatives...
...secretary for manpower and reserve forces since last April. Big (6 ft., 205 Ibs.) Jim Mitchell has spent most of his life in labor relations, has ironed out serious labor and personnel problems at two of the nation's biggest department stores (see box). Said C.I.O. President Walter Reuther: "Mr. Mitchell enjoys a good reputation among the labor people who have dealt with him." Said a presidential aide: "Besides his other qualifications, he has two more I think will help: a thick hide and a good heart...
Many unions fear that older workers who are on a pension would take lower pay and thus depress all wages. But the attitude is changing. C.I.O. President Walter Reuther now denounces compulsory retirement programs as "socially wrong and economically unsound." Actually, the enforced idleness of oldsters is estimated to cost the nation $5 billion a year in lost production, more than the annual cost of all industrial and governmental pension systems...
...Week (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). C.I.O. President Walter Reuther...