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...became something unique in American labor-a regional prince whose power and interests extended far beyond the confines of labor and into the entire life of his community. Unlike Walter Reuther, Phil Murray and John Lewis, he had no yearnings to become a political power, or to take part in plotting a political labor party. The demands of his own principality, where he was supreme, were enough to occupy his time...
...seemed near a settlement this week-were just about the last of the big unions still haggling over their 1948 wage boosts. The rest of labor seemed ready to go to the well again. Arriving in Portland, Ore. for the C.I.O. convention, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther lowered the first bucket...
...Durham, N.C., U.A.W. Boss Walter Reuther was up again after a complicated "exploratory" operation on his shotgun-blasted right arm. A friend who watched the operation reported: "The doctor feels very good about the whole thing...
After six months, Detroit's amateur detectives and junior G-men had almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...
Miller declared that a few weeks before the shooting, Bolton had offered him and an associate $13,000 "to bump off Walter Reuther." They refused. A couple of days before Reuther was shot, Bolton came to Miller's home, asked for two shotguns. Bolton left with the guns, saying: "I've got to borrow the typewriters. I've got to get rid of a red-haired Communist son of a bitch...