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Steelworkers' Chief David J. McDonald reached across a table in Pittsburgh's Hotel William Penn one day last week and handed a sheaf of papers to Clifford Hood, president of U.S. Steel. Thus the steelmakers opened negotiations for a new contract. There was nothing new or unexpected in the union's 22 contract demands-a guaranteed annual wage, "substantial" wage increases, premium pay for weekend work-and the first session brought out no fireworks. Nevertheless the session made history. Sitting around the table were representatives not only from giant U.S. Steel but from Bethlehem and Republic...
Altogether, the industry estimated, the package that Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald will present could cost as much as 60? an hour for every worker, increase the average cost of $129-a-ton finished steel upwards of $12 a ton. But steelmen guessed that McDonald would settle for considerably less. At the top of the package is the demand for increased weekend pay, which alone could boost labor costs by 30? per man-hour. The Steelworkers' main objective is to put workers on a Monday-Friday week, though this would demand widespread reorganization of the industry. Jones & Laughlin...
Dean Bundy's office yesterday confirmed reports that Wallace McDonald '44, at present Director of Freshman Scholarships, has been appointed acting Dean of Freshmen, effective in July. His Corporation appointment will expire in February, 1957, when he will presumably return to his position in the Admissions and Scholarships Office...
...McDonald temporarily replaces F. Skiddy von Stade, who has been granted a half-year's leave of absence. Von Stade, who has been Dean of Freshmen for four years, will journey abroad this summer, and will return to his present position next February...
...Later, Alligator. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., after horrified school authorities closed her dormitory reptile zoo containing two turtles, a foot-long alligator and a scarlet king snake, Bryn Mawr College Sophomore Marianne McDonald sighed: "It seems hard to believe that everyone doesn't like reptiles-the little snake was a symphony in color...