Reuther Rejects Nixon's Plea for Wage Restraint
DETROIT, Nov. 8 ÛÓ The United Auto Workers Union today rejected the Nixon administrationÛªs plea for restraint in wage demands to combat inflation.</br></br>UAW president Walter P. Reuther said it will have to be the auto Companies, not the workers, who do the suffering in the next round of negotiations, which begin in mld-1970.</br></br>"We arc going to get our equity, and we donÛªt, care what the attitude of industry leaders or the attutude of the Nixon administration is,Û Reuther said. ÛÏLet the sacrifice be done by the people who can afford the sacrifice.Û</br></br>Reuther said the blame for inflation belongs to the giant corporations and accused the Nixon administration of siding with big business. He said the current General Electric strike is an example of how the Nixon administration is, in his view, openly encouraging resistance to labor's legitimate demands.</br></br>About 5,000 UAW workers are involved in the GE strike. Major unions participating in the strike, which has idled 147,000	GE employes, are the United Electrical Workers and the International Union of: Electrical Workers. Reuther proposed a 550-million strike fund to support the workers.