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Access to Ike. The cost of a rented Cadillac in New York City or the daily bill for the apartment suite overlooking Central Park was of no more concern to McDonald than it would be to the steel executives he had recently left. The steelworkers' union, with 1,200,000 members spread across the U.S., each paying $3 in monthly dues, has like other unions moved into the realm of big business itself. Since the U.S.W. is one of the most highly centralized major labor organizations in the U.S., its $40,000-a-year president wields more authority than...
...Dave McDonald lives his businessman's role right to the tips of his grimeless fingers. He surrounds himself with a hardworking staff of economists, statisticians, and public-relations men. He has been glamorized in an inspired and gushing biography. A onetime amateur actor, he sometimes rolls off pronouncements with more than a touch of ham. He regularly buys part of his vast wardrobe from Manhattan's Ivy-Leaguish Brooks Brothers...
...They're union made."). He likes classical music the hi-fi way, seeks out exotic jazz dives when he gets a chance, lunches periodically at Pittsburgh's tony Duquesne Club. Three years ago he was honored by the biggest names of Pittsburgh on Dave McDonald Day. At home he works for the local Community Chest, the Rosalia Foundling & Maternity Hospital, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Parents' Athletic Council of Mount Lebanon. He is a member of the Government's Export-Import Bank advisory committee, and was a member of the Randall Commission, which surveyed foreign economic...
Abandoned Clichés. Many a battle-scarred unionist snorts at Dave McDonald's airs and the fact that, never baring his chest to the furnaces, he came to the Steelworkers' presidency on the white-collar route. Yet McDonald is, in fact, far more in tune with his times than his classconscious critics. In the phenomenal growth of the competitive U.S. economy over the past four years, most of the old labor-management clichés have gone out the window. Labor and management still argue and labor still strikes, but enlightened leaders on both sides know more...
Philip Murray, McDonald's predecessor as the Steelworkers' president, always geared his thinking to the inevitable strike, as a Washington labor specialist points out, but McDonald always thinks ahead to the inevitable settlement. Emphasizing the mutual trusteeship of labor and management. McDonald persuaded negotiators to sit around the table to discuss this year's contract−instead of across the table from each other. Then he suggested that the table be taken away altogether so they could just sit around. Even on the eve of the strike, the worst thunderbolt that McDonald could think of to hurl...