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Last month, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther told a Senate committee that the steel industry had embarked on a program of "planned scarcity calculated to enhance profits and to fortify their monopoly." The charge was echoed by Henry Wallace's New Republic: "Despite the fact that other industries such as oil and container manufacturers are crying aloud that their work is hampered by a lack of steel, the steel industry has refused to expand . . . content with current high profits and fearful of another depression...
Born. To Walter P. Reuther, 39, president of the C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and May Wolf Reuther, 36: a daughter, their third; in Detroit. Weight...
...terms of U.A.W. politics, the plan was a triumph for Dick Leonard, and a blow to U.A.W.'s President Walter Reuther, whom Leonard has opposed. (Leonard has been a supporter of ex-President R. J. Thomas.) In addition to pensions, the equivalent of about a 15?-an-hour raise, Leonard got a 7?-an-hour increase in wages for Ford workers. The U.A.W. expects the Ford plan to become a model for the industry...
...depended on Phil Murray's steelworkers. They had been tied up in negotiations since January, had extended the deadline once-until April 30. Now time was running out. Both Murray and Reuther were obviously piqued that management had stolen their thunder by dealing first with the Red-wired electrical workers. But the Big Three meeting broke up with no word of results. Walter Reuther went back to Detroit, still breathing intransigence...
With the announcement, the whole labor picture changed. G.M. promptly signed with 3,000 rubber workers in Dayton at the magical new 15? figure. At the least, it meant that Walter Reuther would be hard put to it to avoid accepting about the same terms at G.M., at Chrysler, and at Ford. At most it meant that the U.S. could look forward to a season of real labor peace...