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According to the United Auto Workers' latest demands, nothing much remains for them but to take over the auto industry by holdup. Reuther should be put to hard labor in jail for endangering the welfare of the nation. Communists all over the world are now entitled to be highly amused to see this exhibition of what we still call Free Enterprise...
...there not one Kohler among the automakers in Detroit with the guts to tell Reuther to go fly his socialistic kite...
...WALTER REUTHER'S POWER as undisputed labor chief of auto industry may be challenged by skilled members of his United Auto Workers who have formed two splinter craft unions, aim to file in 200 plants to win bargaining rights and fatter raises and benefits than unskilled U.A.W. men. Automakers will side with Reuther to battle splinter groups, fear that small number of separately organized skilled workers could paralyze industry if they wanted to strike...
...mounting chorus of complaints about U.S. cars were added the voices last week of Harvard University's Economist Sumner Slichter and Labor Leader Walter Reuther. Slichter (who drives a 1951 Ford) expressed hope that automakers, burned by "the unattractiveness of the 1958 cars," now will "come forward with models that meet the people's fancy and small, economical cars that may become the rage." One trouble with the auto industry, Slichter advised the Senate Finance Committee, is "the weird collection of headlights, fins, tails, wings, etc., that is called an automobile in 1958." Reuther agreed with a Dutch...
Labor's strongest opponent of industry-wide bargaining is the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther. Once when his union was weak, he argued long and loud for industry-wide bargaining, hoping thus to get more prestige-and members-for his union. Now, says Reuther, "there is no way they can force us to bargain on an industry-wide basis." Industry-wide bargaining would cost Reuther his major weapon in wage negotiations: the "key bargaining" tactic by which he singles out one company for attack, then uses that settlement as a pattern for the others. In 1955, at the last...