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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers. Color...
...uncertainty has been heightened this year by the United Steelworkers' presidential-election struggle being waged by President David J. McDonald and Challenger I. W. Abel, the union's secretary-treasurer. All contract negotiations have been suspended during the fight and, as the Feb. 9 union election approaches, a bitter campaign is being fought. It is replete with denunciation and sarcasm, lapel buttons and helmet stickers, kleig lights and sound trucks at mill gates and union halls. Abel portrays McDonald as a has-been who prefers nightclubs and Palm Springs to the open hearth and McKeesport, calls...
...illustrate that he already knows how, McDonald last week opened contract talks with the major can companies with demands for substantial wage increases and greater job security. These negotiations, said McDonald, may set the pattern for the steel talks. But the fact remains that only after the 976,000 Steelworkers decide who will lead them -and where-can the U.S. begin to know with any certainty what course the 1965 economy will follow...
...stormy battle for control of the 1,120,000-member United Steelworkers union, President David McDonald last week lost a prophetic skirmish. McDonald's rival for the president's post is Steelworkers' Secretary-Treasurer I. W. (for lorwith Wilbur) Abel, 56, who for twelve years had worked side by side with McDonald. But over the years the rank and file has found McDonald, 62, to be more and more remote from hearthside problems; sensing this, Abel decided to risk a cozy future in pensioned retirement by challenging McDonald in the union elections to be held next month...
From union headquarters in Pitts burgh last week came a report on nominations for various offices as recorded by locals in the U.S. and Canada. Nominations for Abel: 1,310 locals; for McDonald, 904. The locals' nominations in the past, Abel pointed out, have been a good bellwether of rank-and-file voting. In this case, he added, the strong push in his favor "reflects a clear lack of confidence" in McDonald. Election date...