Word: abell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike deadline for the troubled steel industry passed last week without a settlement-and without a strike. In a surprise last-minute decision, management and labor agreed to stretch the bargaining for 24 hours past Saturday midnight, the time set for a walkout. United Steel Workers President I.W. Abel, chief labor negotiator in the contract talks involving 350,000 workers, announced the extension and then headed back for another night of talks with R. Heath Larry, who heads the management team for nine big steelmakers. And the nation continued to face the prospect of either a shutdown in steel...
...with management representatives. With outsiders, though, they were quiet and cautious. "This is one time when steel negotiations are not going to be decided by the media," said U.S. Steel Chairman Edwin Gott. Even the location of the meetings (in the Shoreham North Hotel) was a carefully kept secret. Abel was registered in a large Shoreham North suite, his refrigerator stocked with tonic water, Danish pastries and sardines...
...Marvin Watson, a Texas oilman and former high aide to President Johnson, told United Steelworkers President l.W. Abel last month not to waste money trying to re-elect Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Watson's implication was that oilmen have marked Harris, a former Democratic national chairman, for political extinction. They have never forgiven Harris for voting against one of their favorites, Russell Long, for Senate whip...
...president, Abel will also head the 156,000-member Alumni Association...
Maurice Lazarus '37 is the new first vice-president of the organization. Both Abel and Lazarus will serve one-year terms...