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Since the formation of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1955, President George Meany, head of the old A.F.L., and Vice President Walter Reuther, boss of the old C.I.O., have eyed each other with deepening disdain. Meany thinks of Reuther as an energetic troublemaker. Reuther attributes many of organized labor's problems-such as declining membership and jurisdictional disputes between craft and industrial unions-to Meany's lackadaisical leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Last week, at labor's Bal Harbour convention, the Meany-Reuther feud was a top conversational subject among the delegates...
...they pay high wages. Though the coal industry is generally considered a fading one, the enthusiasm with which United Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis welcomed automation has created a situation in which a few highly paid miners running vastly efficient machines turn out high-profit production. Similarly, Walter Reuther's vigorous pursuit of the good life for his autoworkers-who now enjoy wages 1.39 times the national average-helps to explain the auto industry's high money contribution to the economy...
Chief cause of this fiasco was a miscalculation by Reuther. Three weeks ago, in a move to pressure G.M. for improved working conditions, Reuther gave the U.A.W.'s G.M. plant locals the go-ahead to strike over local issues in the belief that he could call his men back whenever he wanted. But Reuther underestimated the unrest in the locals. Last week in Detroit the U.A.W. Council which represents all the locals in G.M. plants, agreed to accept the nationwide contract that Reuther had negotiated, then turned around and voted for a full-scale strike until all local disputes...
...summons did not set well with burly, aggressive John M. McCarrell, 42, president of Local 544 at G.M.'s huge Fisher Body plant near Pittsburgh. McCarrell, who had already defied Reuther by refusing to let a national U.A.W. representative sit in on the Pittsburgh negotiations, vowed that he would not call his men back until he had won concessions on local work rules and seniority procedures. And McCarrell held the whip hand; since his plant turns out body parts for all five G.M. automaking divisions, he was capable of stifling G.M.'s entire output. When he learned...
...Since Reuther could, if pushed, replace McCarrell with a Detroit-appointed administrator, odds were that McCarrell would soon settle his differences with G.M. But the squabbling within U.A.W. ranks had undeniably hurt Reuther's prestige. At week's end, as the U.A.W. prepared to shift its attack to Ford, Detroit automakers were uncomfortably aware that it took more than an agreement with Walter Reuther to ensure peace in the auto industry...