When Walter Reuther first went to Detroit, he was 19 years old and not quite sure of himselfa youthful weakness that he has long since corrected.
According to a Detroit Y.M.C.A. questionnaire which he filled out in 1927, he wanted to be either 1) a chicken farmer or 2) a labor leader. Within a decade, he was leading thousands of men in the great sitdown strikes of Depression-era Detroit. By now, restless, redheaded, hard-driving Walter Reuther, who could never have confined himself long to a hen house, has reached the top of the heap...
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