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...building-trade union discrimination against Negroes. Last week the civil rights question still divided labor's leadership. Walter Reuther, who had quit the A.F.L.-C.l.O. executive council over this and other issues and may ultimately lead his 1.5 million-member United Auto Workers out of the federation, told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that craft union leaders were "hiding behind pious declarations on paper." His "greatest disappointment since the merger," said Reuther, "has been the failure of the labor movement to solve the problem of minority groups in the craft union setup...
...Reuther's seat on the council went to William Pollock of the Textile Workers Union, but another place might be vacated if Reuther wanted it. Meany remarked dispassionately that the U.A.W. chief should register his complaints through "appropriate channels" within the A.F.L.-C.l.O., where they would get a fair hearing. Asked if that constituted leaving the door ajar for Reuther's return to the fold, George said: "I would accept it as that...
When George Meany's A.F.L. merged with Walter Reuther's C.I.O. back in 1955, the event was hailed as a happy-ever-after alliance. From the A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s earliest days, the partners proved less than compatible. President Meany, now 72, a crusty, authoritarian craft unionist, was dogmatically anti-Communist in foreign affairs and staunchly standpat about civil rights at home. As top vice president, the idealistic, garrulous Reuther, 59, onetime boy wonder of the industrial unionists, tried to nudge the labor movement into the vanguard of social reform and international bridge building. Not only has Reuther...
Last week, after months of public sniping over the giant labor federation's course, the strained relationship approached the breaking point when Reuther, boss of the United Auto Workers, resigned from the A.F.L.-C.l.O.'s policy-making executive council, along with three other U.A.W. officials. Reuther stays on as chief of the powerful industrial-union department-a coalition of old C.I.O.-type unions within the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-but nobody knows for how long. At its next convention, in April, Reuther's 1,500,000-member Auto Workers union, the federation's largest, will consider whether...
Last week the long-run feud between Walter Reuther, boss of the United Auto Workers, and George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. (TIME, Dec. 2), escalated to a new peak of bitterness when Reuther announced that the U.A.W. had decided "to exert our independence" of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. on is sues of its choosing. Reuther showed some of that independence by withholding from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. $232,000 in auto workers' dues for two months, finally paying an installment of half the amount last week. Though few in the labor movement believe that Reuther will pull...