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Over the boss's objections, the C.I.O. United Auto Workers bought an $11,600 armored Packard sedan for Walter Reuther, who still wears a sling around his right arm, shattered by a shotgun blast a year...
...fellow Democrats by getting elected governor of Michigan last November, the C.I.O. hurriedly set out to help him run the state. Personable "Soapy" Williams, a New Dealing Grosse Pointe socialite (and an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune) soon had a press secretary handpicked by U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther, and a batch of other officers who had been blessed by the C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Considering that the C.I.O. (530,000 dues-paying members in Michigan) was the biggest group to support him in the campaign, Governor Williams thought it was the thing...
...straightened it all out was smart, amiable August Scholle, 44, longtime president of the State C.I.O. Council, and one of Walter Reuther's close friends. His influence was soon felt. A committee of properly indoctrinated Democrats last week held a state convention at Grand Rapids...
...loud cheers and the great glee of right-wing leaders, James Carey and Walter Reuther, Murray added: "Let these apostles of Communism ... stand up and be counted like men." Feinglass and Henderson made squeaks of protest, defending their right to think as they pleased, attacking U.S. policy as giving aid to fascists and Nazis...
Already assured of a 3?-an-hour increase from his cost-of-living contract with General Motors, Walter Reuther made it plain that he would not be satisfied with any such driblets. Said he: "We're talking already about a fourth round. If you haven't heard about it already, you will hear about it next week. There's no question that the workers are due for another increase...