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...Detroit, Walter Reuther made his demands on Chrysler: 23½? more an hour, with enough fringe raises to bring the total to 30?. In Pittsburgh, Phil Murray was dickering for a "substantial increase" for his steelworkers. Now, as last year, labor insisted that higher living costs must be met with higher wages...
After an evening of warm-up speeches, they went into closed session in the Willard Hotel's Congressional Room. When they emerged they had a name (Americans for Democratic Action), a bankroll ($9,-300), and a 25-man organizing committee, loaded with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson...
Thus, when C.I.O.'s three biggest bosses -the Steelworkers' Phil Murray, Auto Workers' Walter Reuther and Electrical Workers' Albert Fitzgerald-met in Pittsburgh last week to set a common bargaining policy, they exuded sweet reasonableness. Only a year ago, all three of them had gone out on defiant strike. Now the theme in Big Labor was peace-at almost any price...
Murray's Steelworkers and Fitzgerald's electrical workers decided to make no specific demand for a flat wage increase. But redheaded, aggressive Walter Reuther was already out on a limb; he had announced a demand for 23½? more an hour for his auto workers...
...would also be a big day, though in a different way, for redheaded Walter Reuther, the combustible president of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He had a huge surprise for his four-year-old daughter Linda-a tiny electric phonograph with two albums of miniature records. And he was due for a surprise himself. His wife, May, would have sour cream pancakes for breakfast in their neat, white Detroit home...