Word: mcdonaldization
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Handsome David McDonald, president of the C.I.O. United Steelworkers, once studied the theatrical arts. An amateur playwright, he put on a suspenseful production last week at the union's Atlantic City convention. McDonald, who greatly dislikes C.I.O. President Walter Reuther, had set the stage for conflict. He erased mention of the C.I.O. from his union contracts this year and even told newsmen not to describe the Steelworkers as C.I.O. He still paid $100,000 monthly dues to the C.I.O. for his 1,200,000 members (nearly one-fourth of the national C.I.O.'s revenues and strength...
...days, as the 2,800 delegates waited and wondered, McDonald was ill abed. On the next day he ended the suspense, and proclaimed: "I'm not mad at the C.I.O. Don't get me wrong. I want unity. That's what I'm making all this noise about. I want labor unity." But he gave notice that, at the C.I.O.'s December convention in Los Angeles, he will demand Reuther's resignation as president either of the C.I.O. or of the United Auto Workers, his basic source of strength. Reuther is not likely...
Surprisingly, the Yankee youngsters are carrying the team. While old reliables such as Lopat and Reynolds have been taking their lumps on the pitching mound, Bob Grim, Eddie Ford, Harry Byrd, Tom Morgan and Jim McDonald have turned in 50 victories among them. Mantle, Noren and Skowron are living up to advance billing and outhitting such veterans as Woodling and Collins. Now, in the stretch sprint, the Yankees will face teams that have been their cousins all season. If they take up their old, winning ways, professional Yankee haters will begin to worry that Casey Stengel will take his sixth...
...expected to ride out a strike rather than cut narrowed profit margins any further. Why did the managers agree without a fight? Partly because they acknowledged an obligation to increase fringe benefits, frozen by contract since 1949. But a more significant reason was their high regard for U.S.W. President McDonald. By giving him a fat new contract without trouble, management also gave him increased prestige and power to match up against his old antagonist, C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. Said one top steel executive: "The steel industry knows that it is going to have to deal with the union problem...
...Meany and Reuther found a letter that reminded them that not all of labor is marching along toward unity. The letter was sent out on sparkling new stationery with a joint letterhead, and was signed by United Mine. Workers President John L. Lewis, C.I.O. United Steel Workers President Dave McDonald and A.F.L. Teamsters Union President Dave Beck, who formed an alliance two months ago. Addressed to editors and labor leaders all over the U.S., to the governors of the 48 states, to the President and all members of Congress, it called for immediate Government action to reduce unemployment. C.I.O...