70 Year Magazine Archive

Second Place in the Arms Race

by Walter Darnell Jacobs

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men and national committeemen, mostly unidentified, but 38 of whom think it will be LBJ again.) Possibly the Kennedy crowd really can, by outnews-managing, outpublicizing, opposition, bring Bobby to his heart’s desire. At present they have only made him the biggest cinder in the public eye, and just possibly a mote in his own.

Walter’s Walkout The abrupt departure of Walter Reuther and other leaders of the United Auto Workers from the highest councils of the AFL-CIO merely dramatizes a conflict long in evidence. Almost since the day in 1955 when the strange alliance was engineered between CIO radical industrial unionism and the more traditional and more conservative AFL craft-oriented unionism, Reuther and George Meany, leading exponents of the two approaches, have been at odds.

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