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Walter Philip Reuther (1 September 1907-10 May 1970) was an American labor leader and head of the United Auto Workers union. Unsourced If it looks like duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck. Regarding communists...


Biography

Name: Walter Philip Reuther
Birth Date: September 1, 1907
Death Date: May 10, 1970
Place of Birth: Wheeling, West Virginia, United States
Place of Death: Pellston, Michigan, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: labor leader

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Biography of Walter Philip Reuther
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American labor leader Walter Philip Reuther (1907-1970) pioneered in unionizing the mass-production industries. In a movement traditionally preoccupied with bread-and-butter goals, he dedicated his career to broadening labor's political and social...


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Alliance for Labor Action Summary
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United States 1969 In late 1968 the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), under the leadership of Walter P. Reuther, officially disaffiliated with the American Federation of Labor and...
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Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic party in the mid 20th century. He was a socialist...


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Crain's Detroit Business
Walter Reuther.
11/01/1999: 418 words, approx. 1 pages
To automobile executives such as former Gov. George Romney, he was ''the most dangerous man in America.'' To thousands of Detroit area auto workers, he was the man who made their jobs the elite of the blue-collar world by securing solid benefits, safety...
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Labour/Le Travail
Most dangerous man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the fate of American labor.
03/22/1998: 1,187 words, approx. 4 pages
(New York: Basic Books 1995). THE UNITED Automobile Workers Union (UAW) has been a popular research topic of historians, journalists, activists, and other labour specialists, giving us a not only vast, but also highly contentious literature on the topic. No single person is...
 


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