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STRIKE TALK over the guaranteed annual wage in the auto industry is lessening. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther is not adamant on the union's guaranteed-wage plan, says he will listen to other proposals that might be "better or more practical." And with output at a peak, auto companies are anxious to work out some reasonable settlement...
...Walter Reuther, brilliant, cocky head of the C.I.O., was as deeply committed to labor unity, in principle, as was Meany. There were those who suspected-perhaps unfairly-that Reuther's ambition would keep him out of a federation headed by Meany. But even if his ambition had outrun his convictions, Reuther had little practical chance to stand aloof from Meany's vigorous wooing. The antagonism of the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald and some other C.I.O. leaders toward Reuther was undisguised. The C.I.O. could elect reunion with the A.F.L.-or fragmentation. Whatever the mixture of Reuther's motives...
...Walter Reuther, who remains president of the million-man United Auto Workers, and who at 48 may well aspire to be the next president of the united labor movement, announced, "I will be very happy to step down as president of the C.I.O. and support the leadership of George Meany." For himself, Meany proclaimed new drives in the future to "organize the unorganized," especially in stores, service trades and white-collar work...
Full of foreboding, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther* stepped before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in Washington last week to talk about the future. As far as Reuther could see, the horizon was cloudy-and the blackest clouds of all bore the label "automation." Citing the example of an automatic engine-block assembly line on which 41 workers now do a job that once required 117, Reuther foresaw the day when "entire plants, offices or departments in much of industry and commerce will be operated by electronic control mechanisms." The Administration, he cried, had better do something now about...
...phones? Yet between 1940 and 1950, said Fairless, the number of telephone operators in the U.S. increased by 159,000, or 79%. In the same ten-year period, while vast strides were made with electronic business machines, the number of accountants jumped by 71%. As for the auto industry, Reuther's own stamping ground. Fairless noted that, despite big gains in automation, the number of auto workers doubled in 14 years-"and for every new job in the auto industry it is estimated that five new jobs are created in allied fields...