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...leading 22 Negro college students in a lunch-counter demonstration. A dozen white students from the University of Minnesota arrived in Nashville to help the sit-in movement. At the request of Negro students, top labor chieftains, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany and United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, signed cards pledging themselves to boycott store chains that refuse to serve Negroes at lunch counters in the South.* Students from Harvard, M.I.T. and half a dozen other New England colleges met in Plainfield. Vt. to map a program for supporting the sit-in movement...
...rich kids go to Wayne, its students go on to all sorts of success. Wayne's alumni include former U.S. Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, TV's Hugh Downs-and Broadway Director Lloyd (Raisin in the Sun) Richards. Wayne produced not only the union brothers Reuther, but also G.M.'s Vice President Louis G. Seaton, who sits across from Walter at the bargaining table. "To get through Wayne," says Seaton, "I worked eight hours a day as a sign painter. It was a down-to-earth, hardworking place then, and it still is. I feel awfully good about...
Michigan Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams is almost as durable a fixture on the state landscape as the Ford River Rouge plant. Elected by a landslide in 1948, he shrewdly built a Democratic machine on grass-roots upstate organization and the downstate power of Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers, was re-elected for five successive terms, a national record. Last week crewcut, ruggedly handsome "Soapy" Williams, 49, wearing his original 1948 green polka-dot bow tie, got on a statewide TV network to announce that he would not run for a seventh term...
...heady socialism of Harold Laski's Grammar of Politics. "I still have the greatest feelings for Oxford," Mboya says. "It was a very impressive year." And, he adds, it impressed Europeans back in Kenya. With new confidence, he went to the U.S. for a lecture tour, met Walter Reuther, George Meany and David Dubinsky, and went home with a $35,000 A.F.L.-C.I.O. gift to build a new union headquarters in Nairobi...
Automation without strife is not a matter of what management does but how management does it. In the auto industry, Autoworkers President Walter Reuther early took the position: "We do not oppose the introduction of more efficient technology. We do insist, however, that a modicum of social responsibility be exercised in its introduction." Taking Reuther at his word, the auto companies in 1958 put in their contract provisions for early retirement as well as severance pay when machines displace workers. The Big Three also gave displaced workers first crack at new automated jobs, and Ford eliminated the 27-year...