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...acre Pennsylvania resort owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -signs of rift were all over the premises. On the excuse that he had to fire the opening salvos of the United Auto Workers' contract battle in Detroit (see BUSINESS), A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, who has long been at odds with Meany, snubbed the entire meeting; labor experts were quick to note that Reuther had set the timetable for his contract negotiations long after the executive council meeting date had been established. Top lawyers for the industrial unions claimed that relations between the A.F.L.C.I.O...
...broad burled walnut table in Detroit's cavernous General Motors Building last week, a pair of short, stocky men shook hands like anxious boxers in response to shouted directions from a battery of photographers. With this ritual over, talks began between United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and G.M. Vice President Louis Seaton...
Four days after Castro's original offer, a fund-raising committee was formed with three distinguished Americans at its head: Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Milton Eisenhower and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. Not until three days later did the White House admit that President Kennedy himself had recruited the committee heads. At least one of the top committee members felt that he had been bilked by Kennedy: he had understood in his telephone conversation with the President that the whole project would receive publicly announced White House backing from the very start...
...tractors Fidel Castro demanded as ransom for 1,200 imprisoned Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs invasion were ready, and the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee, headed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walter Reuther and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was prepared to deliver them to the Cuban dictator in lots of 100. The committee still had no visible funds to pay for the tractors, but hoped to find them in 25,000 unopened letters. If and when Castro agreed to the deal, the committee would open the letters. But in order to pay the $16 million tab, each letter would have...
...assuring their freedom. Kennedy also judged-and accurately -that many Latin American nations, previously reluctant to admit that Castro was as bad as he is, would be outraged by his callous offer to trade human lives for machines (see THE HEMISPHERE). And so, Kennedy called Eleanor Roosevelt and Reuther, both of whom were fairly obvious candidates for such a committee. Seeking a Republican, he tried a couple, finally landed Milton Eisenhower...