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...worry in Detroit was still the threat of an auto strike. United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther promised to set the date this week for a strike, unless the Big Three fatten their six-month-old offer of a two-year contract extension. At week's end Reuther himself rejoined the contract talks for the first time since June 1, and both sides appeared optimistic. But wildcat strikes also continued to spread. Some 27,000 workers had walked off the job, by far the largest number since auto industry contracts expired 14 weeks...
...labor leaders were glumly aware that the U.S. public, annoyed by rising prices, would take a dark view of a pacemaking U.A.W. strike for new wage boosts. The Executive Council went ahead anyhow, named a seven-man strike committee to "give practical support, organizationally and financially," if Walter Reuther's Auto Workers go on strike...
AUTO SLOWDOWN is hitting Detroit just as 1959 production starts. Some 5,600 United Auto Workers left jobs in five plants last week in worst labor trouble since industry's contracts expired three months ago. Companies figure U.A.W. President Walter Reuther is flexing his muscles, expect more brief strikes...
...Soap Heir G. Mennen Williams, the aging (47) political prodigy, ran into his first primary contest in a decade. Opponent: William L. Johnson, owner of Ironwood's radio station WJMS, backed by insurgent Democrats, who dislike "Soapy" Williams' alliance with the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther. But against potent Soapy, Johnson proved to be a washout. Last week, by a nearly six-to-one margin, Michigan Democrats picked Williams to run in November against G.O.P. Nominee Paul D. Bagwell, Michigan State University communications professor and a political novice. Odds-on to win: Williams. Nominated...
U.A.W. President Walter Reuther feels that he has regained some of the tactical advantage he lost two months ago. He has managed to stall contract talks-and keep his members in line-until the 1959 models are getting ready to roll off the assembly lines, a time when a strike will hurt more than it would have in June. Stocks of unsold '58s have been whittled from 900,000 to a four-year July low of 672,000, which is only a two-month supply at current selling rates. (While automakers reduced January-July production from...