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Assessments for Politics. In Detroit's Masonic Temple Arizona's Goldwater addressed 1,010 Republicans on "the political blight that has come upon the state of Michigan," i.e., control of the Michigan Democratic Party by United Auto Workers' Boss Walter Reuther. "Underneath the Democrat label here in Michigan there is something new, and something dangerous-born of conspiracy and violence, sired by socialists and nurtured by the general treasury of the U.A.W.-C.I.O. This is the pattern of political conquest. This is the pattern of men whose conscienceless use of violence and money to achieve political power...
...Mentally Unbalanced." Reaction to the salt-and-pepper twins was swift and violent. The U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther called Goldwater "this country's . . . number one peddler of class hatred ... a reactionary ... a stooge for big business . . . mentally unbalanced and needs a psychiatrist." Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams hustled to the rostrum to defend Reuther. (Mused a pleased Michigan Republican: "The people are getting the idea that every time Reuther takes an Alka-Seltzer, Soapy burps...
...This is the great spellbinder," said Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams as he defended United Auto Workers' President Walter Philip Reuther to a U.A.W. national convention in Detroit last week. But this time Reuther wove no spell of oratorical magic. What he did do was get 3,200 U.A.W. delegates to approve his 1958 set of demands for the auto industry's contract negotiations opening early in April. Items as approved...
...Reuther had invited General Motors President Harlow Curtice to attend the convention, and debate the new proposals and Reuther's position that the only thing wrong with the country economically is "a serious imbalance" between expanded productive power and lagging purchasing power-correctible in U.A.W.'s case by signing a fat new contract. But Curtice wrote that he could "make our position clear without a personal appearance." The nation, said Curtice, is afraid U.A.W. will make wage demands not "tailored to the economic facts of life." As a start toward restoring public confidence, Curtice asked U.A.W. to renew...
Steelman McDonald had hardly spoken before the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther topped him. The U.A.W. decided Reuther's executive board this week, will patriotically forget all about its plan for a shorter work week in 1958 negotiations. Instead U.A.W. will couple its new demands for wage increases with a novel program of profit-sharing for wage-earners. And just in case this might not bring him a big enough audience, Reuther was ready to propose (but not "demand") that automakers also share their profits-in the form of rebates-with their customers...