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...this country and abroad feel differently. Accolades for A.D.A., on the occasion of its 15th anniversary, were received from Eleanor Roosevelt, former Senator Herbert Lehman, Hugh Gaitskell, Ambassador to Peru James Loeb, Mayor Robert Wagner, President Betancourt of Venezuela, Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...even as Kennedy spoke to the U.A.W., there was before the convention delegates a resolution stressing "the imperative necessity." in order to expand demand, "for real wages to increase at a rate faster than the rate of productivity advance." When newsmen first saw and asked Reuther about the resolution. Reuther hastily called the White House with a promise to clear up the "misunderstanding" before Kennedy came to Atlantic City. The U.A.W. policy on collective bargaining, announced Reuther. "is in conformity with and supports the efforts of the President to achieve a stable price structure." But after Kennedy's convention...
...friends-some 10,000 delegates and guests of the United Auto Workers in annual convention. Around Atlantic City's Convention Hall were huge signs reading "U.A.W.-All the Way with J.F.K." and "You're the Skipper, Jack. Full Speed Ahead. Damn the Tories." As U.A.W. President Walter Reuther introduced Kennedy, the delegates jumped to their feet, whistling, stomping and cheering...
Meany chose to display his feelings toward Reuther by calculated insult. Both as a vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and as one of John Kennedy's hardest working supporters during the 1960 campaign, Reuther had every right to expect that he would be placed on the committee assigned to greet President Kennedy at the labor convention. But Meany deliberately left Reuther's name off the committee list, assigned him instead to escort a subsequent convention visitor-Eleanor Roosevelt...
Even in the face of the rebuff, Reuther held his tongue. But that only left the convention's 900 delegates wondering how long it would be before Reuther would launch a frontal assault on Meany that might well end up by ending the whole A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. This possibility was plainly in the mind of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg when he addressed the convention. Assuring the convention that there were really no insoluble conflicts within the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg declared: "Our national policies at home, to cope with the problems we face abroad, demand unity-unity on the part...