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...most interesting things to see," remarked Miss Lee, "was a development in American trade unions which went beyond wage negotiations and labor conditions to a consideration of problems of production and control, under Phil Murray and young men like Walter Reuther, who have made themselves production experts in key defense industries...
...award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin, of whom with their brilliance, achievement, and human leadership would be far worthier than last year's choice of Tory Lord Halifax. From America young Walter Reuther, who has pointed a new path in labor-capital relations, or the more established leaders of labor such as David Dubinski and Sidney Hillman. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Paul Robeson in the arts and Clifford Odets and H. L. Mencken in literature are other men for whom academic recognition...
...bickering went on. The storm center was bumptious young Walter P. Reuther, who devised labor's 1940 Reuther Plan for pooling industry facilities for airplane production. The management men admitted that Reuther had great ability,* hinted that they would be glad to welcome him as an individual into management's ranks. But they did not want him running the show as a union leader...
...Army, which sent Reuther and Lieut. Colonel A. Robert Ginsburgh on a survey of auto-plant facilities...
...Walter Reuther's plan, the merits of which are now almost universally recognized, shows what progressive labor unions can contribute to the nation. Labor's cooperation with the war effort has been singled out in the little-publicized annual report of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, who blasted Big Business and patted labor on the back. Even the Truman report praised labor with faint damns...