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...Texas Democrat, labor's leaders loved him. But then, under the Truman Administration, he voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, and the unionists neither forgave nor forgot; in 1960 Johnson was the only major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who was opposed by Big Labor, and Walter Reuther protested volubly against Johnson's being named Kennedy's running mate. But by last week labor had come full circle - almost...
Even so, Walter Reuther said last week that his United Automobile Workers would go to the bargaining table next July "under the most favorable set of circumstances in our history...
...that the union will demand a package increase of about 5%, much more than the rough 3.2% guideline that the Administration suggested in January as reasonable and noninflationary. One of the Administration's greatest concerns now is that other labor chiefs will demand at least as much as Reuther. That-combined with a big increase in purchasing power, a big federal deficit and a continuing policy of easy money-could bring on inflation and end the U.S.'s six-year period of relative price stability. With such a prospect in mind, President Johnson in his speech this week...
...stop class discussion of Communism; another was reprimanded for mentioning menstruation in a mixed physiology class. Some students, says one history teacher, began taking a blindly ultrarightist line in class-calling federal aid to education "Communistic," for example, and criticizing President Johnson for being friendly with Auto Unionist Walter Reuther. At the same time, Pleasantville was well supplied with right-wing literature, much of it distributed by a cafe owner who asserts that "Communism is infiltrating our schools through the National Education Association...
...workers double or even triple time for extra hours worked; but no serious consideration is expected from Congress this year. Nonetheless, U.S. labor unions are dead earnest about curbing overtime on their own. In Detroit, proposals to curtail overtime will be one of the key issues that Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers will take up at the bargaining table this year. The steel industry's labor-management human relations committee is already grappling with the question, and the Rubber Workers, the Cement Masons, the Machinists and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers are among the many other...