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...Kennedy on matters of deepest concern to the nation's 72.2 million-man labor force. When some locals of the United Auto Workers staged the toilet strike against General Motors just as an agreement seemed imminent (see BUSINESS), both U.A.W. President Walter Reuther and G.M. Negotiator Lou Seaton called Goldberg for advice. Patiently, Goldberg heard each man out, discovered areas of agreement, and eased them toward accord. Both sides were confident of an end to the walkouts this week...
...improved economic condition. But the chief reason for his aggressiveness was his success fortnight ago in isolating American Motors and concluding with it a new three-year contract that included profit sharing (TIME. Sept. 1). Last week, as he settled down for intensive bargaining with G.M. Chief Negotiator Louis Seaton, Reuther demanded that G.M. match the American Motors agreement...
...Bogeymen. Lou Seaton tries hard to convince his fellow G.M. executives that not all union leaders are bogeymen -and vice versa. Despite a six-figure income, he continues to live in an unpretentious suburban home that he bought 20 years ago, takes little part in Detroit's posh country-club life. In off-bargaining season, he plays poker and cribbage with union buddies, attends union social functions, and has been known to shell out of his own pocket for old union friends who fell on hard times. On first-name terms not only with Reuther but with "Jimmy...
This benign philosophy does not prevent Seaton from being a tough and savvy bargainer. "That amiability of his," la ments Leonard Woodcock, "doesn't lead him to give away anything at the bargaining table." Because he helped pioneer G.M.'s labor relations in the '30s without benefit of a degree in law or psychology, Seaton likes to call himself a "barnyard bargainer." But he is a pretty slick country boy. A regular reader of dozens of union publications, he has an intimate understanding of the political realities of the labor movement, on occasion has stayed...
...Graduates. Seaton played a major role in negotiating the pattern-setting contract that ended the 1946 strike at G.M., has had no authorized strikes since he took over as director of labor relations the following year. "I just hate strikes," he says. "Collective bargaining is a device by which we can work out our problems without legislation, in a peaceful manner. It keeps us out of the trouble other nations have had." A Catholic convert who had to drop out of Detroit's Wayne State University for lack of money, thoughtful Lou Seaton is well able to lecture fellow...