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...thought your article gave a fair and objective coverage of a situation that is difficult to report without taking sides; it was bipartisan and showed how reasoning and sense disappeared when an irresistible force (Walter Reuther) met an immovable object (Herbert Kohler...
Since 1948, his close alliance with U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther has helped G. Mennen Williams overcome the violent opposition of Michigan industrialists, win five elections for governor. But in a national presidential election...
...Walter Reuther's support is much less than conclusive-and "Soapy" Williams, with his eye glued to 1960, could do with some votes from U.S. businessmen. In the current Harvard Business Review, Princetonian ('33) Williams asks an unabashed question, gives an unabashed answer. The question: "Can businessmen be Democrats?" The answer: "The door is open and business is welcome." The Democratic Party, he assures his readers, "is not anti-business ... is not a labor party . . . can in no sense be called a class party...
...halt the downturn by any means, at any cost. Labor, business, state and local governments, all were calling for action from Washington, and doing very little on their own to help fight the recession. Symbolizing the panic pressures, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther and other top labor leaders handed the President a damn-the-deficits plan that included just about everything except an offer to join with management in a hold-down on wages and prices. The U.S., it seemed, had grown overly accustomed to letting Uncle...
...quickly as possible, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther is plumping for a temporary suspension of withholding taxes. Ford Motor Vice President Theodore O. Yntema goes even farther, suggests a moratorium on all income taxes, whether withheld or paid quarterly. Neither plan has found much support, largely because both are considered unconventional, difficult to administer. Labor unions and some Democrats have suggested a rise in the personal income-tax exemption from $600 to $700 or $800. Legislators of both parties frown on such a plan because it would free millions of people from paying any taxes, remove the sense...