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...high wages and high unemployment, American workers generally worry far less about the size of their paychecks than about whether those checks will keep coming. Responding to that anxiety, union leaders are putting job security high on their bargaining agenda-and last week I.W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers, decided to go all the way. At Washington's Shoreham Americana Hotel, he opened his last round of contract talks in basic steel (he is 68 and will retire in June). As militant Steelworkers, fearful of a sellout to the industry, picketed outside, Abel announced that the union...
...campaign was one of the most vituperative ever seen in a union election, and it continued that way to the end. On the weekend before the polling, retiring President I.W. Abel, who had hand-picked McBride as his heir, flew to Chicago to attack Sadlowski on his home turf. "I've known Ed Sadlowski for twelve years," sneered the white-haired Abel, "and I know his lack of ability, his lack of dedication." McBride repeated his charge that "outsiders and limousine liberals" were his opponent's main backers. Sadlowski, for his part, called Abel, McBride and Meany "well...
...fateful." The Briton had reached cautious accord with leaders of the five black "frontline" countries surrounding Rhodesia-Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. He had also talked with four black nationalist leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of the hard-line Patriotic Front, and the more moderate Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Only Smith, said Richard, had balked completely. "Smith wants to settle on his own terms. That's not settlement by negotiation. That's settlement by ultimatum...
...since 1965, when Abel defeated David McDonald by a gossamer 10,000 votes, has the contest for the 1.4 million-man union's top job been so embittered. Since last fall, when Sadlowski announced his candidacy (TIME, Sept. 20), both sides have traded vicious verbal blows, and sometimes physical ones: a Sadlowski volunteer was shot through the neck while handing out leaflets in Houston. The battle has spilled over into the courts. Three weeks ago, McBride filed a suit charging that Sadlowski had received illegal campaign contributions from employers in other industries; last week Sadlowski countered by filing...
...Abel-McBride forces charge Sadlowski with radicalism. McBride is careful not to call Sadlowski a Communist. "I don't really know whether he is or isn't a Communist," McBride said at a Pittsburgh rally last week. "But I do know he's in bed with left-wingers...