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Both are Steelworkers, and both are running for the presidency of the United Steelworkers of America, the largest union in the AFL-CIO. There ends all similarity between Ed Sadlowski and Lloyd McBride. Sadlowski is 38, a scrappy Pole, a third-generation "mill rat" who feels that U.S.W.'s leadership is too close to employers and too distant from the rank and file. McBride is balding, 60, grandfatherly, a lackluster speaker, a defender of the status quo-and the apparent front runner. McBride has one thing going for him that Sadlowski does not: the backing of I.W. Abel...
Sadlowski has the backing of Ralph Nader, Victor Reuther (brother of the late Walter), liberal Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, who gives money to liberal causes. Most established labor chiefs, like George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, oppose Sadlowski...
Sorensen was hotly opposed by Senator Henry Jackson and the AFL-CIO for being too dovish. But he had the crucial backing of Cyrus Vance, Carter's choice for Secretary of State, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the new National Security Adviser. Sorensen worked closely with both on the Carter campaign in New York...
Then the Schlesinger advocates rallied. Aides of AFL-CIO Chief George Meany spoke in Schlesinger's behalf-though some officials speculated that labor's lobbying was partially designed to strengthen John Dunlop's chances of being named Labor Secretary ("You give us Dunlop, and we'll accept Brown," the labor aides seemed to be suggesting). Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson took up the Schlesinger cause. So, in a discreet way, did Admiral Hyman Rickover, Carter's early mentor. Also backing Schlesinger were Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis and Appropriations Committee Chairman John McClellan...
Carter may have some new faces to contend with in labor. Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is likely to be challenged by U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick in the union election in June. Patrick might stiffen union bargaining demands. AFL-CIO Chief George Meany, 82, could retire this year. His likely successor: Lane Kirkland, the federation's quiet, intellectual secretary-treasurer. There is also a strong possibility that the United Auto Workers, divorced from the AFL-CIO since 1968, may rejoin the federation...