Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UAW-CIO's editorialist, the indictment indeed falls less upon the "honest reporters and lower ranking editors" than upon the top policy-makers, "those whose closest contact with working people is in ritzy country clubs and athletic clubs, union league clubs and meetings of the American Newspaper Publishers Association...
...convention went on record in favor of the expressed political aim of Walter P. Reuther's UAW-CIO: "the formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party" to speak for labor-liberal forces. Chapter rank-and-file opinion on this stand will be solicited through a referendum the new national board has been instructed to conduct...
...Baker Library the President of the United Auto Workers completely conveyed the integrity of his stance to an audience that might have been hostile: members of Advanced Management and Labor Policy Seminars together with curious Business School onlookers. They peppered Reuther with questions on specific petty gimmicks of UAW policy. The Red Head simply cocked jauntily backward and the Redhead triumphantly established a controlling rapport. "Walter's learned not to get mad at them," remarked a Nieman Fellow who has long covered labor in the Midwest...
...face of a continuing pattern of Administration ineptitude and the emotional tug of the Wallace candidacy, how does Reuther orient his strategy? His chief emphasis must rest with positive assurance that there will emerge a politically successful alternative to conservative weighting of the Democratic Party. On March 3 the UAW consequently proclaimed its alternative: "formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party." Harsh charges are made against the Wallace move: that "this third party is...a Communist Party maneuver to advance the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union"; that "this party has neither the organizational...
Last weekend's ADA convention high-lighted one pertinent trend within labor and liberal forces, Schlesinger stated. Starting with Walter Reuther of UAW and William Green of CIO appearing on the same speakers' restrum and manifesting complete unanimity of opinion, the conclave represented the beginning of a closer cooperation between the two previously-hostile factions, especially with regard to the coming elections...