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LABOR. The McClellan committee will continue its investigations, moving from the Teamsters Union to Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers and on to David McDonald's Steelworkers, winding up with a bill designed to halt abuses by labor leaders that is likely to get wide support in Congress...
...lagging behind wages. In 1958 it should rise sharply, not only because the new plants built by industry are more efficient but because increased competition for jobs should make everyone work a little better. Moreover, as jobs grow scarcer, wages will flatten out. While the Autoworkers' Walter Reuther still talks of demanding a four-day workweek and other plums, wage demands will be tougher to win from management, whose bargaining position has been strengthened by the economic downturn and the scandals in labor's own house that have cost it heavily in public opinion. As a result...
Against this grey background, the United Automobile Workers' President Walter Reuther vowed in a speech at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City that labor would enter the coming year's collective bargaining "mindful of our broad economic and social responsibilities." Did this declaration mean that Reuther would urge his fellow labor leaders to refrain from pushing wages up during an economic lull, so as to avoid increasing business costs and consumer prices? Did it mean that, since labor's overall output per man-hour has increased very little over the past two years, labor would concentrate...
...from it. What Reuther and his fellow A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders called for as labor's 1958 platform was 1) higher wages, plus 2) "increased leisure" through shorter work weeks with no pay reduction, plus 3) bigger health, welfare and unemployment-benefit programs. In short: more pay, less work. When the economy was booming, Reuther had called for wage boosts to catch up with higher prices. Now, with the economy slumping, he called for wage boosts as the cure for a recession caused-in the official A.F.L.C.I.O. view-by a lack of purchasing power...
...expected, the word brought an outraged howl from United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, who only a fortnight ago demanded an "anti-inflation" cut of $100 on 1958 cars (TIME, Sept. 2). Thunderbird Reuther, announcing an appeal to President Eisenhower "to exert his great persuasive charm" on the "irresponsibility" of the automakers: "You can increase wages and cut prices and make money if production is increased...