Walter P. Reuther, one of America’s great labor leaders and president the United Automobile Workers union (UAW) between 1946 and 1970, was born on this day.
Sources :
No Greater Calling : The Life of Walter P. Reuther, courtesy of the Reuther Library at Wayne State University.
Walter Reuther biography posted by AFL-CIO.
For more information, see Irving Bluestone, “Walter Reuther : Working-Class Hero, Time, December 7, 1998.
Also see Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997?]