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...living room of his newly purchased "mansion" in Lansing one evening last week Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams played host to a couple of important callers. His guests and good friends: Walter Reuther, president of the politically potent C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's C.I.O. Council. They had gathered to choose a Democrat to send to the U.S. Senate, to replace the late Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican. The union boys wanted one of their own men-an ex-union functionary named George Edwards, who ran in 1949 for mayor of Detroit...
Auto Workers' President Walter P. Reuther: "The policy advocated by MacArthur, carried to its logical conclusion, would expand the Korean military operation into a total third...
Thirteen labor bosses, including C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, James Carey, Walter Reuther, A.F.L.'s William Green, George Meany and Dan Tracy, walked out of the mobilization program. They were admittedly acting mainly for dramatic effect. "In no other way," said labor, "can we effectively impress upon the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated." The only labor leader left in an advisory capacity: John L. Lewis, quietly smirking and, like Tar-Baby, saying nothin...
...Irreparable Damage." The U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, fearing a wage freeze, promptly sided with the industry against "pinpoint" price fixing. If Valentine's order meant that cost-of-living boosts were also outlawed, then the auto industry's long-term contracts with the U.A.W. might be voided, he said, and "irreparable damage" done to the "morale of all American industrial workers." To all these questions and criticisms, Valentine's office replied with a vague statement that it was studying the situation...
...Reuther wanted much more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...