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...game go? Early last week, Ford called for a showdown. It laid a new offer on the 50-ft.-long bargaining table in the English Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Within 18 minutes, General Motors and Chrysler gave the U.A.W. almost identical offers. It was one more warning to Reuther that the Big Three, bargaining together as never before, might take some drastic action such as a shutdown or delay in bringing out new models if the U.A.W. went through with plans to strike Ford. Reuther plainly could not afford to fight the united front. It would break...
...reasons for his new look, Ashmore explained that "deterioration in public opinion" could only result in irreparable damage to the public-school system. "I was trying," he said, "to head off a showdown between the state and federal governments-because no one could win it. They can use force to bring about integration, but if they do, it will require force of such degree that it will disrupt public education for a long time to come. I guess what I'm saying is that I see this as a dead...
...great surprise, the United Auto Workers announced that its first strike target will be Ford. The U.A.W. set the deadline for this week, unless a new contract is signed. Ford said it was actually relieved that the showdown was set, promised to sign only the kind of contract that would be fair to its stockholders and customers as well as its workers, "whether it comes before or after the deadline." At week's end Ford said that it would make a new offer to the union...
...production, or shut down, in sympathy with Ford, undercut Reuther's whipsaw tactics. Following a poor year that saw G.M.'s Chevy alone outsell all Ford cars, Ford could not afford to stand idle while competitors were producing. But the U.A.W. could not long afford a joint showdown by the Big Three. The union might be faced with $12 million a week in benefits to jobless members, would soon exhaust its $40 million war chest...
...main job was to ensure party control of the army. Became the lesser half of the traveling team of B. and K. in glad-handing tours to Red China, India and Britain. March 27, 1958-Kicked out as Premier after siding with Molotov against Khrushchev in a Central Committee showdown. Four days later appointed chairman of the Soviet State Bank...