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...Place, Our Burden. Flushed and triumphant, Reuther faced the delegates. "The great captains of industry and anti-labor forces of America realize," he declared, "that the auto workers can come here and disagree, but when they leave here they leave as a united organization to fight the common fight. ... I want to take my place at the side of Philip Murray and help carry part of the burden which he has to carry as the President of our great C.I.O...
...wings of the stage Reuther told newsmen his program, which included Reuther drives for i) a minimum national wage, 2) conversion of war plants to prefabricated housing ($2,500 houses, 2,000,-ooo people at work), 3) his theory that ability to pay should be a heavy factor in determining wages...
...Murray agents, got himself elected a vice president. George Addes held onto his secretary-treasurer job and Richard Leonard, an in & out Thomas-Addes man, won the second vice-presidency. On top of that, the perverse and unpredictable U.A.W. elected a majority of Thomas-Addes directors. This would be Reuther's executive board. Then the delegates howled down a proposal to give their officers a salary raise and went home...
...Reuther's election "is not a catastrophe," Phil Murray decided. He added hopefully: "I would say that Walter Reuther has been contained." U.A.W.'s cocky new president had not yet taken his place at Murray's side. But he was embarrassingly close behind. It would take a lot to contain...
...businessmen spot CPers? Said R.I.A.: read the New York Daily Worker for a sure guide to the Party line. Watch workers for their attitudes towards prominent anti-Communist labor leaders such as David Dubinsky, Walter Reuther. Read all the campaign material issued by both sides in plant elections. Characteristics of CP literature: violence of utterance; unreasonable criticisms; charges that the opposition is fascist; use of such CP jargon as "deviationist," "Lovestoneite," "revisionist," "capitalist contradiction," "dialectic," "mass base...