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...Westbrook Pegler solemnly proposed death-the treatment for horse thieves in the Old West-for such U.S. curs as stole tires. Liberal journals thundered at Jesse Jones: "Where are our tin factories?" The Auto Workers Union thundered (in half-page advertisements) at "Mr. OPM." One thunderclap: "Where is the Reuther Plan?" Samuel Grafton, most belligerent columnar thunderer for the New Deal, thundered at the State Department (for protesting the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miqueloa): "Where Is Our Foreign Policy...
...first man to propose publicly that this emphasis be reversed was not a businessman, but a labor leader. Walter Reuther, youthful vice president of U.A.W., is the kind of labor leader Westbrook Pegler has yet to dope out. He was seriously concerned about two things: 1) Hitler, 2) the fact than when the U.S. ran short of materials, it would cost his autoworkers jobs. As early as December 1940 he proposed to beat Hitler and secure the jobs by converting auto plants to the mass production of planes...
...Reuther plan was replete with technical impossibilities, which OPM was quick to point out. It also contained a practical idea-the idea of conversion-about which OPM did nothing. Wrote Walter Lippmann eleven months later: "That piece of Philistinism cost us not merely an unconscionable delay in using the resources of the motor industry but it cost us the enthusiastic participation of labor in national defense...
...days after Pearl Harbor, Reuther was back on the radio, with a new version of his plan. He bluntly aired his fight with Knudsen, who had given him the brush-off by claiming that he had no authority to take him through an auto plant to count the convertible machines. His new proposal was that when G.M., Ford and Chrysler got big orders for identical 30-ton tanks, the three should pool their facilities and subcontract to each other. This is a method of simplifying production which many industries (under the name of the Lyttleton plan) have been forced...
...convention in Buffalo, last week pledged to Philip Murray support for reelection as president of C.I.O. Thus were chilled any hopes that John L. Lewis had nursed of wading in and regaining control of C.I.O. with the aid of the auto workers. Meanwhile Right-wingers, led by redheaded Walter Reuther won voting control of the auto union's executive board, and the delegates, who represented over half a million workers in or on the fringe of the defense program, backed the Administration's foreign policy, called for aid to all foes of Hitler. Communists, along with Fascists...