A report on the UAW-CIO Guaranteed Employment Plan. A re-cap of the 15th UAW-CIO Cleveland Convention in 1955 narrated by Brendan Sexton. Sets the next collective bargaining goal as a guaranteed employment plan. Includes footage of : labor rallies, parades, members’ families, employment lines, and some production footage.
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Uaw President Walter P. Reuther signs the agreement that brings the principle of Guaranteed Wages to mass production industry while members of the UAW-CIO and Ford negotiating committess crowd around. At. WPR's left-Ken Bannon, Director of the UAW's National Ford Dept. and Gene Prato, Chairman of the bargaining committee. On the right are John Bugas, Ford vice-president and chief negotiator and ? ? ?
A photograph made during a trip to Israel for the dedication of the Philip Murray Center, which was built by the CIO and the Israeli trade union federation Histadrut in the city of Elat."Walter Reuther and Golda Meir speaking with each other."ca. 1955
Walter Reuther, right, Chairman of the C.I.O. is shown in a Paris shop Aug. 29, trying to decide which of these bags his wife would like best. With him is Daniel Benedict, left, Assistant Director of International Affairs for the C.I.O. the labor leader is enroute to Israel and while in Paris conferred with French labor representatives. August 29, 1955
"Tunis, September 7, 1955 - In the headquarters of the Tunisian General Federation of Labor (UGTT), CIO President Walter P. Reuther brings CIO greetings to Tunisian workers filling the meeting hall and the square outside. Opposite Reuther is Tunisia Prime Minister Tahar Ben Ammar, flanked by members of his cabinet. On Reuther's left is Ahmed Ben Salah, General Secretary of the UGTT, and on his right is Dan Benedict, CIO Associate Director of International Affairs."
"Tunis, Septermber 7, 1955 - In the headquaters of the Tunisian General Federation of Labor (UGTT), CIO President Walter Reuther brings CIO greetings to Tunisia workers filling the building and square outside. On Reuther's left is Ahmed Ben Salah, General Secretary of the UGTT, and on his right is Dan Bendict, Associate Director of the CIO's International Affairs Department. In the background is the emblem of the UGTT."