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...work (last fortnight Handley went all out for right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool of U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther. Newspaper polls show Hartke ahead, but Handley gaining fast and within overtaking distance...
...Chrysler still faced plenty of labor problems. At week's end some 27,000 Chrysler workers were still out, along with 300,000 G.M. workers. Many of them threatened to stay out until they settled such local issues as washup time, shift-preference procedure. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther said all GM. locals were on authorized strikes, "free to press for settlement of local issues and grievances [with] full support of the international union." G.M. feared local issues would keep thousands of workers away for days to come...
Negotiators, headed by U.A.W. President Walter Reuther and G.M. Vice President Louis G. Seaton, continued their all-night efforts at a settlement up to and past the deadline...
Chrysler Corp. and Ford Motor Co., their settlements already in Reuther's pocket, were troubled by scattered strikes, too. But, unlike General Motors, they continued to produce 1959 model cars...
...This contract represents very substantial progress for General Motors workers and their families," Reuther said. "It is good for GM workers and it is good for the country because it is non-inflationary in character...