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...last point raised the question of the strike against General Motors by the UAW, and Woodcock addressed himself to it. "We have enough money in our strike fund to last until about mid-November," he said. "By then we will be able to tell if this is a strike over basic issues or only a difference of opinion between big business and a big labor union. If it turns out to be a basic struggle, then we will need the help of everyone...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Labor Leaders, Academics Meel to Seek Cooperation | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

...Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, told Harvard SDS members that the General Motors auto strike is neither "romanticism" nor "revolution" but "just a simple strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodcock Refutes SDS Charges Saying UAW's Is 'Simple Strike' | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

...Woodcock made his remarks after a speech at the Business School's Public Affairs Club yesterday afternoon at which he reaffirmed his determination to prolong the strike into 1971 if a satisfactory settlement is not reached for his union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodcock Refutes SDS Charges Saying UAW's Is 'Simple Strike' | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

About ten SDS members approached Woodcock after the speech, demanding a more militant stand by the union leadership. The SDS challenged the union decision not to maintain picket lines at GM's Framingham plant. Nonunion employees are continuing to work for the corporation at Framingham and other GM plants during the strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodcock Refutes SDS Charges Saying UAW's Is 'Simple Strike' | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

While conceding that the 1967 contract settlement was a "bad bargain," Woodcock rejected SDS allegations that he is "selling the union membership down the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woodcock Refutes SDS Charges Saying UAW's Is 'Simple Strike' | 10/17/1970 | See Source »

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