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...chill statistics on unemployment rose in Detroit, the United Auto Workers' Boss Walter P. Reuther, 51, shivered at the thought of being seen or photographed at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council's traditional week-long session in a palm-fringed winter resort. But the 29 elders of the U.S. labor movement, more than half of them on the ripe side of 60, voted nonetheless to accept Puerto Rico's invitation to the glossy Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Still protesting, Reuther and his wife flew down tourist class; up forward in the first-class section...
...Carey enjoyed the comforts, laughingly offered to send the Reuthers some leftover champagne. Moaned Reuther in sunny San Juan last week: "I'm here under duress...
When press photographers were in range, Reuther dodged palm tree backgrounds, wore a business suit and kept his bulging briefcase prominently at hand as a businesslike prop. He refused to go near the water, scheduled a breakfast-to-dinner round of indoor conferences with his underlings. But his battle against pleasure made little headway with the majority of some 200 labor chiefs, relatives and staffers, who refreshed themselves on the beach with a mammoth rum drink called the "Tropical Itch," went sun-scorched to San Juan's casinos and nightclubs...
...poolward in a natty blue-and-white beach jacket and Hollywoodish sunglasses. Sparking the livelier set, the Electrical Workers' Carey demonstrated fancy dives from handstands on the high board. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany appeared in beach regalia featuring sun hat and cigar. But taking his cue from Reuther, Meany, growling, fled from the beach when photographers swarmed around...
...JUAN, Puerto Rico, Feb. 24--Walter Reuther won over other AFL-CIO leaders today to his plan for the unemployed to dramatize their woes with demonstrations soon in Washington...