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...following week in the United States, congressmen protested, editorials condemned American support of the junta, and among others UAW president Leonard Woodcock said: "The power of the dictatorship has rested on the twin base of arms and credits, both supplied in abundance by the U.S. Its reputation was internationally vouched for by Spiro T. Agnew, the convicted tax-evader...
After agonizing over the vote for three days, U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock announced that the contract had been ratified, but that he would go back to renegotiate the disputed clause. Ford officials, he said, are "sensible people who will sit down and work out a solution." Ford's chief negotiator, Malcolm Denise, seeing his respected adversary on the spot, agreed to try. The tradesmen then cooled down and seemed willing, at least for a time, to let Woodcock settle their grievance...
...union had called a strike, making it one of the shortest nationwide walkouts in U.A.W. history. If, as expected, the deal wins approval in a rank-and-file vote that ends this week, the way will be clear for Chrysler to resume operations almost immediately. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock scarcely concealed his glee in pronouncing the settlement "precedent setting," an assessment in which most auto chiefs concurred...
...agreement covers Chrysler's 127,500 U.S. and Canadian workers. Woodcock's next job is to win the same package at General Motors and Ford, which employ some 614,000 workers covered by U.A.W. contracts. The union chief has said that he will seek no larger economic concessions from the Big Two than those won at Chrysler -but will accept no smaller ones. The outlook for a strike-free agreement seemed to remain optimistic. Reviewing the Chrysler deal, a Ford executive said...
...after Woodcock announced the terms of the tentative settlement between union leaders and management, the conflicts between workers of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and varying ages became more intense...