Word: abel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis is coming-but the behind-the-scenes atmosphere did not. By a unanimous vote of its 163-member Wage Policy Committee, the United Steelworkers served notice that it would strike if a new contract is not signed by Sept. 1. Steelworkers' President I. W. (for Iorworth Wilbur) Abel called the industry's current bargaining stance "unrealistic" and "indefensible...
Despite this seeming deadlock, Pittsburgh is optimistic. Union negotiators, headed by Abel, Vice President Joseph Molony and Secretary-Treasurer Walter Burke, feel considerable pressure from their own rank and file to settle peaceably. Under an interim agreement, management has been putting in escrow 11.50 an hour for every steelworker since May 1, and once the contract is signed, each worker will collect about $80-enough to buy a portable TV set or put a down payment on a used car. Abel himself is eager to make a statesmanlike impression in his first real test since wresting the presidency from Dave...
McDonald had finally agreed to refrain from contesting the February Steelworkers presidential election that he lost to Secretary-Treasurer I. W. Abel by 10,142 votes out of 607,678 cast. In that election there were charges of wholesale fraud from both sides-and evidence that both sides were right...
...industry faces a new strike deadline: Sept. 1. Dave McDonald, who intends to contest Abel's election, immediately announced that the union considered the 11½? figure only a "floor," will seek to get much more in the bargaining to come. In fact, McDonald had to ride out cries of a "tin cup" agreement in a stormy, three-hour union meeting before he got final approval for the settlement. After June 1, Abel will be the chief negotiator, and how hard he pushes for more will determine what happens in September...
Last week Abel said that he would be "tougher and firmer" than McDonald in the coming negotiations, but also added: "We will do everything humanly possible to avoid a strike." On the steel side, Wheeling Steel, the nation's tenth largest producer, agreed to abide by the final terms, but decided to withdraw from the eleven-company bargaining team. Norton Simon, the California industrialist who took over as chairman of Wheeling last year, complained that the steel industry "seems to live in a state of constant crisis. Wheeling can't afford that, and I doubt that the industry...