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...What have the following names in common? Douglas MacArthur, Pierre Mendes-France, Gina Lollobrigida. Frances Perkins, Henry Ford, Billy Graham, Casey Stengel, Jean Monnet, Walter Reuther and Marian Anderson...
...contract talks opening this week, rubber workers will push tire manufacturers for paid leaves, ranging upward from two months off after seven years' work. The United Steelworkers' big drive will be for three-month sabbaticals every five years after 15 years' service. In Detroit, Walter Reuther has already pressed the automakers to start studying his requests for greater job security in next year's contract. Stymied in its drive for a 35-hour, share-the-work week, labor has turned its efforts to winning bigger and better fringe benefits...
...reason to expect that such an indirect governmental commitment can begin to solve the problems of unemployment. Eighty thousand new jobs must be created each week for workers displaced by machines plus others entering the labor force. The United States must foster "a new DuPont every week," as Walter Reuther put it, just to hold the employment rate steady...
...became something of a wit. In a speech a few years ago, he observed that every time Senator Jack Kennedy appeared on a TV panel show, "thousands of viewers write in to ask which college won the debate." He further pointed out that the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther "has announced that labor was not wedded to the Democratic Party. If that be true, we have been witnessing the world's most notorious case of living...
...calculated to endear Hill to the labor leaders. Dubinsky attacked Hill's virulence, attributing it, oddly, to the fact that Hill is a white man: "Maybe because he is non-Negro, he's got to convince them that he's more Negro than the Negroes." Snapped Reuther: "Certain N.A.A.C.P. staff people have seriously weakened the work of the N.A.A.C.P., and retarded progress because of indiscriminate and inaccurate charges which make large headlines but get little results." Indeed, only N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins seemed to be trying to smooth things over. "We are confident," said Wilkins, "that...