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Last week, in a session with business students at the University of Pennsylvania, Reuther indicated that the dispute goes much deeper criticizing the basic philosophy and direction of the labor movement. By its failure to campaign for civil rights and to press the fight against poverty, said Reuther, organized labor has demonstrated that it is not "playing the role of a creative and constructive force" and is "failing in its broad social responsibility to the community...
George Meany and Walter Reuther have been feuding, publicly and privately, almost since the day that their unions joined to form the A.F.L.-C.I.O. eleven years ago. Meany, 72, the federation's president, has won the important points, and Reuther, 59, the top vice president, has usually knuckled under - partly in hopes of winning the older man's support to succeed...
Lately, however, the feud has grown increasingly bitter, and Reuther, who has just about abandoned hope of inheriting Meany 's job, has given every indication that he will go his own way on basic issues, taking his powerful, 1,500,000-member United Auto Work ers with...
...suggestions. Civil rights? Burke Marshall, Bobby's civil rights chief at Justice and now IBM's general counsel, offers ideas. James Allen, New York State's commissioner of education; Dr. Eugene McCarthy of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons; Richard Boone, director of Walter Reuther's Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; and Economists J. K. Galbraith of Harvard and Edwin Kuh of M.I.T. are other sources. When in New York, Bobby often calls on Columbia's Dean David Truman or ex-White House Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, spends hours discussing issues with them...
...such sentiments will be all too evident in contract negotiations involving 2,250,000 workers in key industries like electrical equipment, trucking, autos and rubber. Such is the marching fever that some unions can barely wait their turn. In Detroit last week, A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers demanded that the contract, which still has a year to run, be renegotiated for some 200,000 pipe fitters, millrights and other craftsmen. The U.A.W. in sisted that such workers get a $1-an-hour wage hike, so as to put them on a par with other...