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...from his committee was action. To emphasize that fact, he appointed Vice President Richard Nixon to head the new body and gave him a blue-ribbon group with which to work. Among the members: J. Ernest Wilkins, Chicago Negro attorney, who is to be vice chairman; C.I.O. President Walter Reuther; A.F.L. President George Meany; Fred Lazarus, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc.; and Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid, board chairman of the New York Herald Tribune...
Since 1950. the A.F.L. has been spending around $500,000 a year to send the angry voice of Mutual Commentator Frank Edwards into U.S. living rooms. Last week C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. back from six weeks in Europe, announced that, beginning Labor Day, the C.I.O. will have a radio voice of its own: Author-Commentator John W. Vandercook. signed up for 52 weeks, five nights a week, over...
Cause of the delay was ex-Pipefitter Durkin's wish to get a C.I.O. man in one of the Labor Department's three assistant secretaryships. When C.I.O. President Walter Reuther nominated Labor Lobbyist John Edelman for Assistant Secretary in charge of labor standards, A.F.L. man Durkin okayed him. But the White House, sounding out senatorial opinion on Edelman, found that several Republican Senators were dead set against approving a man who had been a Socialist, then a New Dealer, then a Fair Dealer. Result: stalemate. The White House never submitted Edelman's name to the Senate; Reuther...
...other. 'Whaddya doin' with 187 of them and cutting $5,000,000,000 from the Air Force?' I said. If they cut that thing down to a hundred they save a billion a year. Maybe that ain't the figure . . . I'm no Walter Reuther. I ain't got 15 guys gettin' the facts...
...settlement fell even more heavily on Pittsburgh, where the C.I.O. steelworkers are bucking for a wage boost. Said Republic Steel's President Charles M. White: "Where we might have talked [the union] out of something, [they] might now be a little harder to talk to." White was right. Reuther's old political opponent, Steelworker President Dave MacDonald, was sure to push for a wage boost to equal the autoworkers' gains. In terms of cents per hour, union officials figured the pensions and benefits equaled about a dime-though many steelmen were now balking at any raise...