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...Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants with Union Boss David McDonald, Blough believes in separation of management and labor. Grouses one union leader: "Blough is a man you don't get to know much about. He stays in his ivory tower...
...Steel), but Blough argues that profits still fall far short of the cash needed for expansion. U.S. Steel alone had to borrow $600 million in the last five years. As for inflation, Blough considers congressional suggestions of wage and price controls "sheer nonsense." Nor does he agree with McDonald's argument that the best way to fight inflation is to cut prices, starting with steel. He cites the fact that U.S. Steel cut prices $1.25 a ton in 1948 when inflation had pushed living costs up 14.5% the year before. Costs kept climbing so fast that the price...
...Talked generalities in a half-hour chat in Manhattan with United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who dropped by during a recess in the critical contract negotiations with Big Steel...
Fall Memories. McDonald clearly needed a dramatic victory-something better than the gains won by the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther last fall-to prevent revival of the rebel faction that tried to bounce him in 1957. Last week more mutinous mutterings rose from McDonald's ranks. Pollster Samuel Lubell found that many a steelworker genuinely fears a steel strike, is lukewarm to demands for greater wages, fearing that they might cost him his job (TIME, May 4). To refute Lubell, McDonald arranged for seven of his wage-policy committeemen to stand up in public meeting and demand hefty...
Productivity is a key talking point for both sides in steel bargaining. Last month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that steelworker productivity had dropped 6.2% from 1956 through 1958, and most of the drop (5.1%) was in 1958. Answered Dave McDonald last week: "An enormous error." He calculated the respective declines at only 3% and 1.9%. B.L.S. hastily double-checked, admitted with embarrassment a "clerical error." A bureaucrat had substituted the total of stainless steel ingots shipped (18,443 tons in 1958) for the total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week...