Word: abell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bargaining aim of the United Steelworkers of America, said President I. W. Abel last week, is to win "what people need in order to live." Steelworkers, like everybody else in these inflationary times, seem to need more and more. As his union, whose contract expires July 31, formally opened negotiations in Manhattan with eleven major steel producers, Abel's effort confronted the U.S. with the threat of its first nationwide steel strike since...
Though bargaining for a wage increase on an industry-wide basis, the steelworkers have also raised thousands of local issues-ranging from demands for cleaner toilets to complaints about poor lighting in plant walkways-that could impede a settlement. But money, says Abel, "is the most important matter"-and the union has some important precedents to lean on. At the very least, it is likely to insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that...
...Abel J. Levine, chairman of Local Board 10, denied that Krents' reclassification was a clerical error. "All I know is he has 30 days to appeal," he said. Krents is thinking it over...
Durrell is necessarily muzzy on the technical details, though he seems to be securely wired into the arcane science of linguistics, games theory and McLuhanese. The point may be that Abel is the novel, both its medium and its message; according to one of the numerous minor characters Durrell keeps on tap to spout his epigrams, "The poetry is in the putty...
...last attempt to exercise free will has been thwarted, and now he learns that his idea of freedom was illusory: he needed The Firm as much as it needed him. Charlock's most important discovery is that the slave is born with his chains. He retires to perfect Abel as an engine of revenge. There is a Hitchcock ending that is best left undisclosed...