Walter Philip Reuther 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 leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition. Reuther was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of a socialist brewery worker who had immigrated from Germany. In his entire career he was close to his brothers and co-workers Victor Reuther and Roy Reuther. Wikipedia
So began TIME's account of the Battle of the Overpass, the confrontation that made May 26, 1937, a red-letter day in labor history and brought to national attention a young United Auto Workers official named Walter P. Reuther. www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/reuther.html
Was Walter Reuther murdered? In this paper I am going to discuss the death of Walter Reuther and the suspicious way that the newspapers covered it. www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/media/reuther.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Walter Reuther. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther
So speaks Walter Reuther, who makes no attempt to hide his contempt for the old nickel-in-the-pay envelope philosophy. www.nathanielturner.com/laborsproblemrealwages2.htm
Walter Reuther was president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from 1946 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the UAW grew to more than 1.5 million members, becoming one of the largest unions in the United States. www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/reuther.cfm?Render...
From the world of big-time collective bargaining, to the UAW alliance with the Democratic Party, to the structures of subordination and discrimination that ordered the racial hierarchy in all UAW-organized factories, Reuther presided over and therefore to www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue26/lichte26.htm
