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...year prison sentence for inciting a riot. Debate, said the Governor, "is our way of life. If Mr. Castro, who is only 90 miles away, comes to Florida, I'll debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought that Brown, a dropout in his senior year at Louisiana's Southern University Agriculture and Mechanical College, still had a lot to learn about demagoguery...
...Detroit will be some time recovering. Downtown, in the City-County Building, more than 500 members of Detroit's white and black establishment, including Henry Ford II and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, responded to an invitation by Romney and Cavanagh to a latter-day reconstruction meeting. True to its motto, Resurget Cineribus, Detroit was determined to rise from the ashes as swiftly as possible. As Reuther emphasized, there would have to be some social rebuilding along with the physical. Said he: "Most Americans are increasingly affluent, but we have left some Americans behind. Those Americans...
...Reuther said that up to 600,000 members of the U.A.W. would be available in their spare time to help repair the ravages. General Motors offered its "skills, facilities and resources" to help rebuild the city. To be sure, some would just as soon see it remain in ruins. "We'll burn this place down again," said one rioter. "We'll burn down this whole stinking town." With money and muscle, Detroit is now staking its future on the proposition that most of its people-black as well as white-would much rather build than burn...
There were smiles and handshakes all around before Reuther got down to business. Taking more than three hours to make his case at General Motors, and almost as long at Ford and Chrysler, the U.A.W. president outlined the most ambitious list of labor demands Detroit has ever seen. With contracts due to expire Sept. 6, the auto industry faces arduous bargaining that could set the pattern for upcoming labor negotiations across the U.S. The fact that Detroit is girding for the worst -local banks report stepped-up savings deposits by strike-wary workers-suggests what the pattern...
...Certain Disquietude. Major labor contracts, covering 3,100,000 workers, expire in the U.S. this year (the figure was only 980,000 in 1966), and the biggest wave of strikes since 1959 seems only too likely. Not surprisingly, most labor leaders share Reuther's belief that workers deserve a bigger slice of last year's record corporate profits. Few major contracts expired in 1966, however, and corporate profits are off this year. As University of Chicago Labor Specialist Arnold R. Weber puts it, "Now that the unions are able to get to the bargaining table, the pickings...