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Broom & Boomerang. Neatly making use of some indiscreet remarks by the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, Lawyer Merritt took another tack...
Having thus stated management's demurrer to the Walter Reuther case, Lawyer Merritt and the entire G.M. delegation walked out, left the panel and the union to do what fact-finding they could on their own hook. (Chief Fact-Finder Lloyd K. Garrison, visibly angry, pointed out that his panel had not yet asked General Motors for any earnings information and was not even sure that it would...
...always, Walter Reuther was quick to reply. As often, he sounded more hurt than angry. Said he: "The company ... is not arguing with the union, they are arguing with the panel and . . . with the President of the United States. ... If General Motors doesn't like his policy they will have an opportunity at the next election to elect someone that they do think reflects their kind of economics...
...Automobile Workers sat facing each other across a horseshoe-shaped table, presided over by Fact Finder Lloyd K. Garrison and his two assistants, North Carolina's Judge Walter P. Stacy, Kansas' Milton Eisenhower (brother of General Ike). Few facts were being found. The union's Walter Reuther insisted on a 30% raise unless "shown the arithmetic" to prove that such a raise would force higher auto prices. The company refused to lay the figures on the table before "the hungry eyes of its competitors...
...President was recommending a little less than Walter Reuther wanted-since the company's books, if not made public, would not be seen by the union either. But he was recommending a great deal more than the company wanted...