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...then took Ike on one arm, Dirksen on the other, led them into the Chinese Room for the festivities. The President stayed and chatted for about 20 minutes-part of it in earnest conversation with Vice President Nixon and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell (subject: steel)-greeted Mrs. David McDonald, wife of the steelworkers' union boss. (Cooed Rosemary McDonald to Pat Nixon: "The settlement was our loveliest anniversary present...
...band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again at a United Steelworkers rally in Buffalo one day last week as silver-maned President David McDonald, a grin of victory on his face, slowly made his way toward the speaker's platform along an aisle jammed with jubilant steelworkers. Crowed McDonald from the platform: "Victory is yours...
Just about everybody else, from newspaper pundits to steel industry magnates, agreed with Dave McDonald that the steel strike settlement worked out by Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell (TIME, Jan. 11) was a victory for the union. Said a top steel executive: "We took a hell of a licking...
...industry overreached itself by demanding authority to change plant work rules, succeeded only in uniting the rank and file behind Dave McDonald and his war cry that the bosses were out to "bust the union." When President Eisenhower's Taft-Hartley board met in October, after the strike had dragged on for three months, the fact finders discovered that the steel industry spokesmen, headed by Chief Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper, were unable to present a convincing case on the work-rules issue. "It's very distressing at this stage," said Chairman George William Taylor, "that we are still...
Grim Alternative. In November Labor Secretary Mitchell escorted Dave McDonald to a secret meeting with President Eisenhower at the White House. McDonald apparently convinced the President that management's terms were so tough that the union would have to go out on strike again when the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction ran out on Jan. 26. Bent on preventing a renewal of the strike, Ike summoned Vice President Nixon and Secretary Mitchell to the White House shortly before he left on his around-the-world tour, instructed them to push hard to get a settlement...