page_title: Donald E. Montgomery
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Donald E. Montgomery / Career
caption_attribution_description: Walter P. Reuther
context_page_description: Donald Ewan Montgomery was a 20th-Century American economist who served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the New Deal, and later was a labor activist for the United Automobile Workers.
context_section_description: Montgomery served as Director of the Registration Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
  In September 1935, he resigned from the SEC to become "Consumer Counsel" at USDA. During 1942, Montgomery appeared on Labor for Victory, a 15-minute weekly radio show on NBC, created by the AFL and CIO. The episode also included the CIO's director of publicity, Len De Caux.  In December 1942, he left USDA.
  In February 1943, he again became "Consumer Counsel," this time for the UAW. Walter Reuther was recruiting professionals for various UAW branch offices and included Montgomery, a liberal economist and professional in New Deal laws and regulations. He served as UAW representative on the Policy Committee of Price Administration. In 1947, when the UAW's Washington Office Policy Committee reorganized, Reuther appointed Montgomery as director.  He served in that capacity until his death.
  Historian Irving Richter calls Montgomery a "close advisor" of Reuther's, who even ghost-wrote matters for the UAW president.
caption: Walter Reuther.
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