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...also was a forerunner in obtaining profit-sharing plans and is now atempting to win guaranteed annual wages for his auto workers. But he wants unions to go beyond bread and butter issues and also deal with important social issues. In the bill of particulars spelling out the UAW's displeasures with the AFL Reuther charged that "the AFL-CIO is becoming increasingly the comfortable, complacent custodian of the status quo." One of Reuther's major areas of concern has been civil rights. He has directed much criticism towards the discriminatory practices of the building trades unions and Meany...
...UAW leaves the AFL it will probably do so alone. None of the other industrial unions are planning now to follow. The head of one such union reported that his position could not even be formulated until the UAW decides what it is going to do after leaving. Another insider said "No one can fault what Reuther is saving but he has not said specifically what he personally can do. Everything is couched in vague generalities, there are no definite plans." One of the most telling analyses of the situation was the report that "I would seriously doubt Reuther himself...
Part of the UAW's complaint included criticism of Meany's autocratic control of the executive council. One labor mediator points out that "Meany has strong personal convictions. He is blunt in his convictions and speaks the language of his colleagues. Reuther does not. He is too intellectual." But what Reuther sees as autocracy is only the executive council's reaction. The fact that the AFL scarcely acts on social issues and Reuther's knowledge that he has no chance of taking over the AFL cause him great frustration. The UAW complaint and his recent resignation are manifestations of that...
They took their allies where they found them--the John Birch Society, Students for a Democratic Society, CORE, The League of Women voters, the UAW and the Teamsters, the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, sympathetic city planners; and the Mafia...
...unions now put out more than 1,000 publications, ranging from slick magazines to mimeographed monthlies, which reach 20 million readers as fringe benefits bought with union dues. The better papers-the Machinist, the Hat Worker, Electrical Union World, the autoworkers' UAW Solidarity, the ladies' garment workers' Justice, the clothing workers' Advance-carry lengthy analyses of legislation before Congress and think pieces on such top ics as automation and narcotics. They are almost all unabashedly Democratic in their politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws...