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...same pattern of dull do-nothing that had characterized all the previous negotiations. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough pointed to the management's offer of a "15? wage package," stuck by his demands for revision in union work rules (TIME, Oct. 12). United Steelworkers Union President David McDonald, who had walked out of a previous session, declared that the package really contained only 10.2,? refused even to discuss changes in the work rules, tagged the whole business "putrid...
...practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced a million tons more in the first half of 1959 while cutting its work force from 301,000 to 241,000. But by McDonald's own admission, at least 100,000 workers in the steel industry still owe their jobs to the work rules, and would lose them if real efficiency could be enforced by steel management...
Health or Safety. In an effort to break the work-rule impasse last week, Secretary Mitchell held secret meetings with both sides, proposed a commission to arbitrate rules on a company-by-company or plant-by-plant basis. McDonald talked as if he would buy the suggestion-if the union had a vote on the commission. But management rejected the suggestion and thereby angered Administration officials. "Hell," snapped one, "they're now trying to get back from labor a good deal of what they themselves have given away over the last 15 years...
Imperiled Health. At the White House two days later, the President met with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough and five other top steelmen for half an hour, then with McDonald and three other United Steelworkers officials for about 20 minutes. At the closed-door meetings, said Press Secretary James Hagerty, Ike "did most of the talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling...
Shaken by the President's intervention, Blough and McDonald agreed to resume negotiations-this time in Pittsburgh instead of New York. Management finally got around to making the union a money offer to chew on. But it was a small offer, totaling about 8? an hour in added benefits as against McDonald's demand for a 15? package. And at the same time the steel industry stuck determinedly to its insistence on contract changes, including revision...