A Talk with Victor Reuther

The Automobile Workers Union (UAW) will be holding its convention this May in Dallas; we expect to have a report in our next issue. Meanwhile, we print below excerpts from a conversation recently held in Washington, D.C., between Irving Howe and Victor Reuther, one of the pioneer leaders of the union. — EDS.

IRVING HOWE: The UAW seems to be approaching a major turning point. When Douglas Fraser retires as president this spring, it will mark the end of the immediate presence of what has come to be known as the Reuther group—that is, those who were around Walter Reuther in the days when he helped organize the UAW and later when he became president. What would you say has been the main characteristi...