Reagan praises Walter Reuther (Project Economic Justice)

In this clip on Project Economic Justice, President Reagan's sites Walter Reuther's call for ownership by employees. "Walter Reuther was one of the first major labor leaders to advocate that management and labor shift away from battling over wage and benefit levels to a cooperative effort aimed at sharing in the ownership of the new wealth being produced. He was looking far beyond the next contract. There is a story that Reuther was touring a highly automated Ford Assembly Plant when someone said, Walter, you're going to have a hard time collecting union dues from all these machines. Reuther simply shot back, not as hard a time as you're going to have selling them cars.". August 3, 1987.