INSIDE LABOR STATE DEPT. KEEPS EYE ON REUTHERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600460031-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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By VICTOR RIESEL
There are those In the Sti ,,busty aun e In Detroit of
cps, who, between gulps of as- after May , 31. Some 40 autoI
irin, are wondering what the . ? union leaders from plants' as far
brothers Reuther will do next. off as Australia will gather with
For some time now, Waller, the brothers Reuther to plan
the elder, has had his own "for- their future - and some of the;
ign office," run by a continent- panning will be open to the pub-
hopping .' ~orciIt.,lumtSScr1 -b Vic-1"' lie media-printed and elec- i.
Iqr.,, .the,,younge ,~,. Ironic,
Unlike any other foreign ' The objective will be eventual
(flees, its service has no money ' confrontation of each of the auto i
problem. .. companies by one solid intern-1
Last year it spent $377.x' (lanai council of un`onisis,
This still left about PA mil-" . Thus Rcuthers auto union in the
lion in reserve, which easily will `U.S. can throw its support to
fit'ow to $6 million in a year or unions of GM employes in Ger-
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nual interest on the union's -to uitich the Reuthers last
mammoth strike fund. year dispatched some of their.
For almost two years now she,. ? colleagues and specialists.
Reuther brothers have been This merely Is one phase of
welding a powerful global labor the operations of the United'
madtinc - and are about ready Auto Workers' ' international
to launch It., across world Iron- '.,dept. At this moment it is trails-1
tiers. lug some 50 of its people' :as`
The unveiling is scheduled for global or transcontinental o--'
the first week in June in the'' ganizers.
auto union's Detroit ' stead-' As soon as these men have
quarters known as Solidarity completed, their foreign service
House. I training here in Washington and
There's nothing rusty about'. Detroit, they will be replaced 6y
Walter Reuther except the color others until the cadres grow by
of his hair. . the hundreds, according to Vic
so, because its source is the an- many, Venezuela, - or Australia;
1966
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big, and so does his brother Vie rnus hunt wairooi or AUUIS
tor, head of his union's Interna? Abatis to Canberra and Cara
`lional Affairs Dept. Their ncw? , cas, there will be auto union
est global operation, virtually .' men working with local unions
unknown to the public, covers' -In and out of the auto Man-
six continents. 'Meturing industry,
By any name, It would be fit- The work will stretch right
flucntiai among peoples and, through Lhe Orient to Tokyo and
governments led more and' South Korea-with plenty of atoll
more by Laborites, ' over in South Viet Nam,
The ' new venture will be What Intrigues the U.S. State
called the World Wide Autonto- Dept, is the impact of the auto
' bile Council - a continent-span- union's "little State Dept." on
ning union, the first of its kind, American foreign policy in this,
with 'branches in at least 50 burgeoning era when the labor
countries, leader of yesterday often Is the
The major. council will have :,,' prime minister of tomorrow.
four sub-councils -- one each td.'. Victor Reuther, . frequently A
cover all the GM plants across brilliant, ingenious opponent of,
the earth all the Ford installs- " the forces in the AFL.-CIO na-
tions; all the Chrysler - Fiat- tional headquarters, r aze 1 y~
Simca - Rootes production cen- hides his distaste for America's;
ters; and a miscellaneous board , foreign policy.
' for such foreign manufacturers Victor is intensely opposed, to
as Volkswagen and Mercedes- ,,.U.S. action in Viet Nam. '
Benz. -' " He hardly Is one' of NATO's'
The mother council. probably ? enthusiastic dmmpions.
'will be headquartered in Stivit-- And recently he led a.?delega-4
zertand, where it can be close ' (ion o[_,U.$ cikizena to tile
to, something called the 'Interna- 17ontinican .Republic? fq..:observe
(tonal 'Metalworkers Federation ' . vhctficr, there . would. h j.' airy
-a vast coalition of work- clcclions,",. He and.,}1g grgup?~]>
ancl l.?,?_assurancea,,,_tha
j ers who handle any product with ,ytn
metal in . it, ranging from U.S. arme 7orces and . C..[,A
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