Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon one day last week, Ford workers in the mile-long Rouge plant were scheduled to get strike orders. Reuther and Bugas negotiated through the preceding night and into the morning. As noon neared, unshaved, rumpled newsmen who had waited up all night crammed into the corridor outside the conference room in the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Inside, after 26 hours of hard bargaining, Reuther and Bugas stood up during a brief break and stared silently at each other. Reuther, who had won his principle, as planned, suddenly grinned and held out his hand. "You've got a deal. Johnny...
...Sundays at home. Valentine Reuther conducted debates on issues like capital punishment and the right to strike...
...Strike! Strike!" Labor discontent in the auto industry was erupting in sloppy, bloody, sporadic strikes. Reuther set out in 1936 to organize West Side Detroit for the struggling automobile workers union...
...months he signed up only 78 members, half of them in the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel plant, which Reuther decided to strike. "We needed drama," he later explained. "We had a big Polish gal who had fainted on the assembly line. We assigned her to 'faint' again. Someone else was to shut down the assembly line." Next day the Polish girl fainted on schedule, the switches were pulled, and the cry arose: "Strike! Strike!" Soon the plant's 5,000 men were milling around Reuther, who delivered a rousing speech while an anxious manager tugged at his coatsleeves...
Reuther has displayed the winner-take-all talents of a Commando leader in his strike strategy. In 1939, to save strike funds, he pulled out General Motors tool-and-die men at exactly the right moment to stop all production; the other workers, technically nonstrikers, collected state unemployment compensation. In 1937, during the bitter, G.M. sitdown at Flint, Mich., he helped to organize the seizure of a key building and stop production...