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Sure, it's only a small plant, but the unions really ought to do something about the industrial hazards there. Just the other day, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, 58, almost lost a finger at the place-a workshop on the grounds of his house in Rochester, Mich. Cabinetmaker Reuther, who fashions all his own furniture, was trimming a wooden light fixture when his hand slipped and the power saw zipped the tip from his ring finger. All patched up, Reuther went back to his U.A.W. desk job, chuckled at a telegram from the carpenters' union wondering...
Last week Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, called for an end to "strikes that endanger the very survival of society." Said he: "We cannot live in a situation where a few workers who are denied their equity can paralyze an entire community." Speaking to some 1,000 top industrialists at a luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s No. 2 man proposed that a tripartite committee of industry, labor and Government be set up to find a "new mechanism and a new procedure" to settle labor disputes in public-service facilities...
Most old-line labor leaders insist that workers should have the right to strike -regardless of the consequences. At A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's headquarters, the reaction to Reuther's proposal was a sharp "no comment-with the emphasis on the no." All the same, Administration officials are hopeful that Reuther's speech may help persuade liberals in Congress to support President Johnson's upcoming legislation to outlaw strikes by public employees. Said Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds: "Here is an indication, even in the labor ranks, of changes that will have...
World War III will break out in 1958. Red China will be admitted to the United Nations in 1959. Walter Reuther will be the Democratic candidate for President in 1964. Davis Strait [between Canada and Greenland] will become strategically crucial to the U.S. in 1963. Richard Nixon will be the Republican presidential candidate...
United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther proudly announced that he and his neighbors in Detroit suburbs would plant 5,000 trees along a barren 25-mile creek bed. Three hundred volunteers waded into the polluted Potomac River one Sunday morning and dragged up 540 armloads of rubbish. Columnist Drew Pearson donated ten tons of manure from his Maryland dairy farm to Lady Bird Johnson's campaign for new plantings in Washington...