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Said the autoworkers' Walter Reuther: "If our fight against increased prices fails we will begin a fight on the wage front."That fight, said Reuther, would be under taken only as a "last resort." Labor now realizes that wage boosts mean price boosts, that another such game of leap frog can end only in the wild inflation that everyone dreads. Labor also knows how to use the weapons of a war of nerves. But labor might be using those same weapons against itself...
...would organized labor, which held the keys to production and another spiral of wage boosts. But labor was restive; there were plenty of warnings about what it might do if prices rose all along the line. Snappish Walter Reuther said that his autoworkers would break every contract and reopen wage negotiations; the C.I.O.'s packinghouse workers gave notice that they would demand a cost-of-living bonus in their new wage contract talks next month...
...evenings they piled into the big Shriner auditorium to hear Harold Stassen blast U.S. Communists, Walter Reuther blame U.S. labor troubles on insufficient "consumer capacity" (i.e., too low wages). Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, Chicago's famed radical Catholic bishop, brought down the house with a savage attack on racial inequalities and congressional dawdling...
Veteran newsmen wondered how anything could ever come out of the wild confusion. One delegate mistook a two-star admiral for a Yugoslav observer. Reporters themselves caught the fever. One thought he was buttonholing Walter Reuther, embarrassedly found he was talking to a Chicago Tribune staff writer...
...things had happened in the 16 months since James Caesar Petrillo last negotiated a big union contract. Congress had sent the President a bill calculated to curb his "coercive practices" in radio. Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis and other labor leaders had stolen his tricks or invented new ones. Were others taking James Caesar's place? Did the booing bother him? Last week in Manhattan, representatives of eight major motion-picture studios got the answer: Petrillo was improving all the time...