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...Illinois coal fields at age eleven, had worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...
...both sides have matured, however, it is big labor that has become the more resistant to internal change. A demonstration of unionism's adherence to the status quo came last week from the United Automobile Workers, which convened in Long Beach, Calif., and ritualistically bestowed on Walter Philip Reuther, 58, an eleventh two-year term as its president. By acclamation, of course...
...course. But could the job be done differently and better? Many critics, mostly on the left, argue at least that it should be done more expensively. Labor Leader Walter Reuther complains that the Administration is doling out anti-poverty funds "with an eyedropper." Liberal Economist Leon Keyserling maintains that the effort requires at least $15 billion a year, roughly ten times what Johnson has been spending. Not to be outdone, a group of New York civil rights leaders has demanded an appropriation of $41.6 billion a year -more than one-third of the entire national budget-to combat poverty over...
...than this success story is the necessarily more speculative history of what has been going in Romney's mind. Anyone who wants to prove that he is an unvarnished Chicago Tribune sort of Republican can go back to his AMA speeches and find the usual derisive references to Walter Reuther, creeping socialism, etc. But people's minds--even Midwestern businessmen's minds--can change. Romney apparently had an idea sometime in the late '50s that Michigan could be saved from the twin evils of big labor (the Democratic Party) and big business (the Republican Party) by a knight...
...Political Assassination." C.C.A.P. Chairman Walter Reuther, whose United Auto Workers bankrolled the two-year-old organization with a $1,000,000 donation, set the critical tone at the outset by saying that the Great Society could not be built with "halfway, halfhearted" measures or by "making appropriations with an eyedropper"-though President Johnson is asking $1.75 billion in anti-poverty appropriations for the next fiscal year. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins warned that the war in Viet Nam must not be al lowed to divert funds from the war on poverty...