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...when General Motors Corp. and Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) signed a "cost-of-living" contract, both sides hailed it as a noble experiment in labor relations. Under the contract, the autoworkers got an 11? an-hour raise, plus an automatic boost of 3? an hour at the end of the first year. They also agreed that their wages should be adjusted up or down each quarter to compensate for sizable movements of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' "cost-of-living" index. For a while, it looked as if the union had played it smart: three...
...Chevrolets to $40 on the most expensive Cadillacs. But the union no longer liked the double-edged sword. It announced last week that when the G.M. contract expires in May, it will wash its hands of the deal, go after a guaranteed annual wage instead. Cried Walter Reuther...
After a rousing speech by the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther and a somewhat less rousing one from Secretary Noel Sargent of the National Association of Manufacturers, the delegates buckled down to business in four separate study groups. Three made voluminous reports, well seeded with declarations on behalf of moderation, cooperation, and a Middle Way. But the report of Group B - "Freedom of Enterprise and Social Controls" - packed more fissionable material...
Jointly led by U.A.W. Educational Director Victor Reuther and General Foods Corp. Public Relations Director W. Howard Chase, Group B's 210 ministers and laymen seemed anxious to get Caesar to do more of God's work...
...pretty housewife at the conference objected to listing as a Christian responsibility the provision of medical care for everybody. Chairman Victor Reuther replied: "There are times when compromise has its value, but I doubt if this is one of them...