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Died. Walter P. Reuther, 62, for 24 years president of the United Automobile Workers and champion of progressive trade unionism; in the crash of a small chartered jet near Pellston, Mich. Reuther, who started as an apprentice tool and die maker at 15, went on to become one of the most controversial figures in the U.S. labor movement. Fired by Ford for union activity in 1933, he later worked as an organizer for the fledgling U.A.W., survived severe shotgun wounds in 1948 to pioneer the guaranteed annual wage principle for the automobile industry in 1955. Reuther led the C.I.O. into...
...REUTHER PLAN. The motive power behind the Committee for National Health Insurance is Walter Reuther, whose United Auto Workers already have comprehensive regional prepayment plans working in Michigan. With a small and expert staff, C.N.H.l. has been thrashing out details in subcommittees for more than a year. Their final proposal will be introduced by Senators Yarborough of Texas and Edward Kennedy, probably within a month. Most comprehensive of all the plans so far formulated, it is certain to arouse the sharpest controversy. According to Staff Di rector Max Fine, the aim is to attack the health crisis on four fronts...
...member can retire at age 60, after 30 years' employment, with a maximum pension of $400 a month. Union men are talking of retirement at a minimum of $500 a month and at any age after 30 years' service. Officials of General Motors, which may be Walter Reuther's prime strike target, are not only horrified but are talking of some tough demands of their own. Chairman James Roche has decried growing absenteeism (an average of 5% of the work force now v. 2.5% in 1960) and hinted that the company will press for contract guarantees...
Most of the nation's leading public figures have been on hand at least once. Among them: Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, George McGovern, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan, Walter Reuther, Sam Yorty and John Lindsay. John Ehrlichman, paying his third visit last week, generated plenty of copy, including a Page One lead in the Washington Evening Star: "President Nixon's chief adviser on domestic affairs hinted today that the White House is considering seeking a ban on handguns in the District of Columbia." Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News noted in his story that "Ehrlichman provided a rare...
...this time there is almost an established class of commissioners who are tapped repeatedly for service. IBM Board Chairman Thomas Watson Jr and former Xerox Executive Sol Linowitz are favorite choices to represent big business. Walter Reuther and George Meany speak for labor, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, for Roman Catholics and Whitney Young Jr. and Roy Wilkins for Negroes -although not necessarily for militant ones. The process of forming a commission reminds Sociologist Daniel Bell of a Communist front group. Though the purposes are clearly different, both bodies try to achieve luster by seeking...