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...every day to many in the movement, is between those individuals and organizations that are simply antiwar (though not necessarily for unilateral withdrawal from South Viet Nam) and those that are avowedly anti-American. Among the former can be counted Editor Norman Cousins, the United Auto Workers' Victor Reuther, Newark's Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dougherty, and such mild but pervasive agglomerates as the Quakers' Religious Society of Friends (123,000 members) and Women Strike for Peace...
...Detroit bargaining-table tradition, negotiators start talking in private only after they are ready to clam up in public. So it was not until two weeks ago, soon after United Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther got in his last loud licks at a Detroit rally called to beef up the U.A.W.'s Ford strike fund, that the two sides declared a blackout on negotiation news. Last week the red headed union leader emerged from the blackout with a settlement that, he declared, was the "largest ever negotiated by the U.A.W. with any major corporation...
...neared. Early in the week, Ford Chairman Henry Ford II told newsmen that the strike could be over in a minute-if the company would knuckle under to the union's original demands, which by his facetious estimate would cost $4 an hour in increased wages and benefits. Reuther thereupon blew his top at the breach of the blackout, causing Ford to issue a soothing retraction saying his remark "was not meant to be taken seriously." Then signs of an imminent settlement began to grow. Ford ordered its steel suppliers to resume deliveries, began taping ads saying that...
Roadblocks. Settlement seemed assured as Thursday's bargaining session wore on for 31 hours, breaking off only after two of the management negotiators had collapsed from exhaustion. Then, roadblocks began to appear as Reuther entered the final meeting with a fistful of complaints. By the time they were straightened out-after more than 14 hours of talks-Ford Negotiator Malcolm Denise could only describe the negotiations as "the most difficult in 26 years...
...almost every contract category. Holidays were increased from nine to eleven, pensions were raised. The 20,000 skilled workers, who have long beefed about having to accept the same increases as the unskilled men, got an extra 30? an hour on top of the general first-year increase. And Reuther boasted of an "historic" victory with a new guaranteed annual income provision-though it was hardly the executive-style salary plan that he had been seeking. It amounts to little more than a substantial sweetening of current unemployment benefits, under which idled workers get 62% of their wages...