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Walter P. Reuther, director of the union's G-M department, said the strike call would not affect workers among the plant's 160,000 employees who are actively engaged on the company's contracts for airplane engines, trucks, aircraft sub-assemblies, Diesel engines, machine guns, shells, and other defense work...
Bennett got a cracked head in a fight outside the Rouge plant in 1932, in which four jobless marchers were killed. Brutally beaten by Ford agents were two other men who are now in the very front rank of U. A. W.-Richard Frankensteen and Walter Reuther (whose plan for making airplane parts in auto factories was projected last winter). Brutal beatings took place in Dallas...
...most telling pages seek to smash an illusion and restore a faith. The illusion, mass production of military airplanes, was stimulated by 1) Franklin Roosevelt's call for 50,000 planes a year, 2) Henry Ford's dream of 1,000 planes a day, 3) Walter Reuther's dream of 500 planes a day within six months. Even assuming them to be all of one type, 50,000 planes a year is still not mass production, FORTUNE points out, and could not justify the expensive specialized tooling required by mass-production methods. The military airplane relies...
...Most sensational defense proposal as 1941 opened was C.I.O.'s Walter P. Reuther's that...
Last week earnest Mr. Reuther announced that his 500-a-day figure was only his yardstick of Detroit's potential capacity, that the automotive industry could as well make an imposing (but lesser) number of two-and four-motored bombers...