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...leftists knew that they had no chance to sway the convention. They had come primed to fight for the re-election of bumbling R. J. Thomas as a C.I.O. vice president, and thus build up his efforts to take the presidency of the U.A.W. away from redheaded Walter Reuther. But the leftists never got their fists up. Phil Murray, taking note of rumors that Thomas was plotting with John L. Lewis to take the autoworkers out of the C.I.O., called Thomas in and bluntly told them he was through as a C.I.O. top officer. When his nomination came up, Thomas...
...Reds & Reuther. The biggest Ford local, Detroit's No. 600, has yet to count its votes. U.A.W. Vice President Richard T. Leonard, who had bargained for the plan, still had a faint hope that the votes of its 62,000 members would save pensions...
...only a hope. The pension plan seemed doomed, and partly it was because of union politics. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther, an old enemy of Leonard's, was naturally jealous of the prestige which a pension plan might give his rival. So his henchmen, according to union gossip, quietly urged the plan's defeat. In this, they found themselves working with their arch enemies, the Communists. As long as they thought that Young Henry would not agree to pension, the Communists (who dominate Local 600) were for them. When Ford agreed to them, they turned against the whole business...
...national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent his name and presence. As for a trend, the Republicans could cite one: the Taft-Hartley Act is apparently not a liability to them, and it is going to take something more than demagoguery...
...their ears. The C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers had charged that present U.S. steel capacity (91 million tons a year) was about 20 million tons below future normal demands. The union demanded Government action to overcome the steelmakers' "smug and intransigent" hedging against a possible slump. Walter Reuther, president of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, had for months been accusing them of promoting "planned scarcity...