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First sign of a break came Tuesday, when Ford asked the U.A.W. to postpone a routine afternoon meeting until evening. When the time came, there appeared an extraordinary tableau. Instead of sitting down face-to-face as usual, U.A.W. Chief Walter Reuther and his aides camped by themselves in the Ford headquarters' second-story bargaining room, while the Ford men ensconced themselves in other rooms on another floor. Within two hours, word came that henceforth there would be a blackout on news of the negotiations "to facilitate serious bargaining...
Four Lettermen. The separate tables seemed salutary. After two more days of dickering at arm's length, the Ford team again met the union at week's end, this time to make its second offer since contract talks began. Reuther roundly rejected Ford's terms, but quickly submitted a "counterproposal...
...Reuther admittedly aims to pressure Ford by keeping its rivals going. Yet last week he had no sooner cajoled restive workers back to Ford plants that make parts for American Motors Corp. than other U.A.W. workers at A.M.C. went out on a wildcat strike over a minor squabble. And beyond Ford, where it has 160,000 workers on the streets, the U.A.W. has 30 other strikes under way. Among them: a walkout of 25,000 Caterpillar Tractor Co. employees and a strike involving 4,500 Burroughs Corp. workers...
...million a week, and the U.A.W. is having trouble finding income to match the outgo. For one thing, the non-struck automakers are no longer paying workers' U.A.W. dues directly to the union, and the U.A.W. finds it difficult to col lect from the boys. So last week Reuther rallied the faithful at Detroit's Cobo Hall for approval of an emergency dues increase. So armed, he warned that unless Ford makes a move, "we are in for a long, long strike...
...inter-and intra-union rivalries, which force each faction to try to win more than its competitor. A bitter feud between the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-affiliated American Federation of Teachers and the older National Education Asso ciation has escalated teachers' demands in the past few years. Similarly, Walter Reuther may have been less ready for his U.A.W. to settle with Ford because of his own longstanding differences with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...