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During his lifetime, United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther was regarded by many businessmen and rival union leaders as a dangerously disruptive force. Yet since his death two weeks ago in the fiery crash of a small chartered jet in Michigan, it has become increasingly clear that he was one of the healers that U.S. society sorely needs right now. Of all prominent labor leaders, he maintained the closest ties to the poor, the black and the young -those frustrated groups whose sense of alienation is fed by the suspicion that U.S. institutions, including big unions, care little...
Every Last Penny. Reuther helped to lead the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, spoke out almost alone in labors high command against the Viet Nam War, strongly supported Cesar Chavez's grape strikers. He bubbled with social ideas: for a national medical-insurance plan and for a program to build low-cost housing for the poor, using assembly-line techniques. At the end of his life, he was talking about adding some form of pollution control to the demands that the U.A.W. will serve on the auto companies when bargaining begins this summer. Not all his enthusiasms bore...
Many of the U.A.W.'s 1,600,000 members were unenthusiastic about Reuther's wide-ranging social ideas, but they trusted him completely to squeeze out the last possible penny in bargaining. He had little trouble convincing the rank and file that any settlement he negotiated was the best possible. In his 24 years as U.A.W. president, he made many bargaining breakthroughs that once seemed radical but have since become commonplace: long-term contracts, company-paid pensions, cost-of-living escalators, supplementary benefits for laid-off workers, a form of guaranteed annual income. Auto workers' wages rose...
...Bannon, 56, director of the Ford department. His major bargaining experience goes back to 1949, when he helped Reuther negotiate the auto industry's first pension plan. As the only candidate who is not yet a U.A.W. vice president, Bannon is the dark horse...
...Douglas A. Fraser, 54, head of the Chrysler and skilled-trades departments. A deft, canny bargainer, Fraser had been considered the man whom Reuther was grooming for the succession -but not until 1974, when Reuther, at age 66, would no longer have been eligible...