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...three months, in Detroit's Sheraton Hotel, Walter Reuther's auto workers and the Chrysler Corp. had tried to outguess each other with their separate versions of the newest and most complicated gimmick in labor contracts-pensions for workers. Last week Reuther gave a sleight-of-hand demonstration of how to baffle the adversary and how not to get 89,000 workers back on their jobs...
...called the strike in January, He had demanded a 10?-an-hour package like the one he had won from Ford. Reuther reckoned that the 10? would pay for improved insurance benefits and $100-a-month pensions (with social security) for Chrysler workers over 65. But Chrysler had turned him down...
...hour to provide "adequate" monthly pensions and insurance benefits. Two weeks ago management offered a $30 million pension fund to pay $100 a month (including social security) on retirement at 65 or over. It insisted its plan promised more than United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther had asked for. Reuther spurned the company's offer as "fancy bookkeeping." "Deliberately misrepresented," retorted Chrysler. Then, at the conciliator's suggestion, they adjourned their collective bargaining session, to "cool...
...ninth largest university in the U.S. last week held a two-day "MidCentury Institute on Religion in a World of Tensions." On hand to make addresses and receive honorary degrees were eleven big names in assorted walks of life, ranging from United Auto Workers' President Walter P. Reuther, who got an LL.D., to Professor Georges Florovsky of St. Vladimir's Orthodox...
...along as best they could through Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's expert juggling of "essence" and "complexus," and Professor Florovsky's description of theology as "apophatic." In stressing a plea for a new social welfare system of economics somewhere between laissez faire capitalism and Communism, Unionist Reuther made his bow to religion by calling upon it to "provide man with a positive, fighting faith that will enable him to translate moral and ethical values into basic economic and political decisions." President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America appealed for a permanent commission to inculcate...