THE ALMOST SINFUL STRIKE: Four Years & Stubbornness Have Torn a Town

This week in Washington, Labor Leader Walter Reuther would tell his side of the long-drawn-out Kohler strike to a Senate investigating committee that was hotly divided in its attitude toward the fiery United Auto Workers leader. Democrats would try to protect Democrat Reuther; Republicans were hoping to provoke him into left-wing excesses. Reason: the four-year-old Kohler strike is the nation's major labor-management battleground.

FOR its size (pop. 45,000), the Wisconsin city of She-boygan—"the greatest little town in the world"—may well be the most hate-ridden community in the U.S. Passing on the...