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...Philip Murray early in November. Unable to reach a behind-the-scenes agreement on Murray's successor, top union leaders threw the fight on to the floor of the 14th C.I.O. convention. There, in a roll-call vote, the C.I.O. elected its third president, stocky, redheaded Walter Reuther, since 1946 president of the United Auto Workers...
...United Steelworkers' Union, second in size only to the U.A.W. among C.I.O. member unions, fought Reuther's election implacably, and the Steelworkers' candidate, C.I.O. Vice President Allan S. Haywood, was backed by more unions than Reuther. Among Haywood's supporters, however, were the smaller unions, such unlikely "industrial organizations" as the Barbers & Beauty Culturists, Department Store Workers, the Government and Civic Employees and the United Theatrical Workers. Reuther was backed by most of the big C.I.O. unions, including U.A.W., Rubber Workers, Textile Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and International Union of Electrical Workers. The vote...
Second Generation. At 45, Reuther (rhymes with Luther) is the best known and most resourceful leader in the C.I.O. His ability is not questioned, but many labor (and industry) leaders deplore his tendency toward labor statesmanship, a phrase sometimes used in labor circles with a heavy charge of sarcasm. Though he can be intensely practical when necessary, Reuther is an inveterate shaper of far-reaching "Reuther plans," which to most labor leaders seem to deal with matters outside labor's province. His tendency is to make a specific union issue a springboard for broad social and economic questions...
...Reuther is a second-generation labor man, the son of a United Brewery Workers organizer. His father, German-born Valentine Reuther, imbued Walter and his three brothers with the class-conscious doctrines of German Social Democracy. As late as the mid-thirties, Walter Reuther was still a professed Socialist. His "Reuther plan" may spring from an old Socialist's contempt for the American tradition of "pure & simple" trades unionism...
...series of closed sessions before this week's C.I.O. convention at Atlantic City, C.I.O. bigwigs had failed to reach a behind-the-scenes settlement of the rivalry between the two leading candidates to succeed the late Phil Murray as C.I.O. president: the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther and C.I.O. Vice President Allan Haywood. Barring a last minute agreement, the C.I.O. seemed in danger of having to choose its president in an open and probably bitter fight on the floor of the convention. Not until the C.I.O. re-established its own unity could it give attention to unification with...