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...Detroit's cavernous General Motors Building last week, a pair of short, stocky men shook hands like anxious boxers in response to shouted directions from a battery of photographers. With this ritual over, talks began between United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and G.M. Vice President Louis Seaton...
Whatever else General Motors may lose to Walter Reuther at the bargaining table, it is almost certain not to lose its temper. G.M.'s corporate temper is kept in the strict but benevolent custody of Vice President Louis Goermer Seaton, 55, dean of the auto industry's labor negotiators and one of the most extraordinary adversaries a union leader ever faced...
Unlike the flint-hard company men often assigned to wrestle with labor, Detroit-born Lou Seaton possesses an easy geniality and a deep concern with the problems of the working stiff. As personnel chief for the world's biggest corporation, Seaton takes unconcealed pleasure and pride in his responsibility for the pay, training, health and morale of G.M.'s 556,000 employees. When he is at the bargaining table, voices rarely rise, fists seldom pound, and the loudest sound is often the Seaton chuckle. Says Leonard Woodcock. U.A.W. vice president in charge of the G.M. locals...
Finney plays the part of Arthur Seaton, a machinist in a Midlands mill who slaves away at the lathe all week, but on Saturday night it's down to the pub for a glorious case of the screaming ab-dabs. After putting away ten pints of beer, Arthur falls blissfully down a flight of stairs, staggers home with a friend's wife (Rachel Roberts), wakes up next morning just in time to walk out the front door as the friend walks in the back. Off to a bar, he spots a little bit of all right (Shirley Anne...
...tradition. He is relentlessly naturalistic, and his technique seldom shows on the surface. Like Look Back in Anger's star, Kenneth Haigh, Finney typifies the antiromantic, non-U hero who has emerged from the new social realism of the British theater. But as the rough and uneducated Arthur Seaton, a Nottingham lathe operator who fairly hums with the joy of doing wrong, Actor Finney is far more believable than was Actor Haigh as angry Jimmy Porter, and is something of a reflection of Finney himself when he delivers the line: "I'd like to see anyone...