Reuther, Walter Philip (1907–1970)
| US trade-union leader. He was vice chair of the Union of United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 1942–46 and its president from 1946. He was president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations 1952–56 and vice president of the combined American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations 1955–70. |
| Reuther was educated at Wayne University. From 1927 he worked for various motor companies, and in 1935 began to organize the workers in the motor industry into a union. |
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