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...Source (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther is interviewed in his office at Solidarity House in Detroit...
...While United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther led the planning for the auto wage negotiations, the man who did the union's talking in last week's parleys with General Motors was his heir apparent and chief bargaining strategist at G.M., Leonard Woodcock, 50. A quiet, reflective negotiator, Len Woodcock, though born in Rhode Island, was educated at the British public school of Chipsey ("A poor cousin to Eton," says he), still speaks with a slight English accent, lives in Detroit's fancy suburban Grosse Pointe. Woodcock's demands for 1961: a 26?hourly wage...
Hoffa let it be known that he was more than willing to return to the house of labor; the only obstacle, said he, was "that dopey, thick-headed Irishman," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. To Meany, and even to such friendly A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders as Walter Reuther ("Reuther is not stupid like Meany"), Hoffa threw down a challenge. Either he would be taken back on his own terms within 18 months or he would form his own federation. Few who heard Hoffa doubted his determination; he had already defied the U.S. Government and forced Jack Kennedy to swallow a campaign...
...Opening contract talks with American Motors Corp. last week, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther pointedly said: "We are happy to upgrade you to membership in the Big Four." A.M.C.'s Labor Relations Vice President Edward L. Cushman, 47, was properly grateful to be ranked alongside General Motors' Ford and Chrysler, but equally insistent that independent-minded American Motors has no intention of being lumped with the other auto companies in a pattern settlement. Cushman, a cigar-smoking ex-professor of public administration at Detroit's Wayne University, was equally complimentary before both sides got down...
...problems without legislation, in a peaceful manner. It keeps us out of the trouble other nations have had." A Catholic convert who had to drop out of Detroit's Wayne State University for lack of money, thoughtful Lou Seaton is well able to lecture fellow Wayne dropout Walter Reuther about social justice-whenever the voluble Reuther lets him get a word...