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...tens of thousands, steelworkers last week voted in one of the highest-stake elections in U.S. trade union history. Challenged was David John McDonald, 62, president since 1952 of the million-member United Steelworkers of America. Challenging was Steel-worker Secretary Treasurer I. W. (for lorwith Wilbur) Abel, 56, who for the past dozen years has worked only a few paces down the hall from McDonald in the union's Pittsburgh headquarters, sharing confidences, negotiating chores and administrative responsibilities...
...uncommonly mean campaign for public political office. Both candidates spent weeks stumping at the plant gates while their hired flacks reeled off torrents of vituperative copy. To impress the union's 200,000 Negroes, McDonald's supporters put out juxtaposed photographs, taken at different times, showing Abel and Alabama's Governor George Wallace shaking hands with the same man-implying a link between Segregationist Wallace and Abel. To impress Roman Catholic members, Abel supporters spread reminders that Catholic McDonald had been divorced. The McDonald camp turned out a million hard-hat stickers emblazoned with the inspired slogan...
...uncertainty has been heightened this year by the United Steelworkers' presidential-election struggle being waged by President David J. McDonald and Challenger I. W. Abel, the union's secretary-treasurer. All contract negotiations have been suspended during the fight and, as the Feb. 9 union election approaches, a bitter campaign is being fought. It is replete with denunciation and sarcasm, lapel buttons and helmet stickers, kleig lights and sound trucks at mill gates and union halls. Abel portrays McDonald as a has-been who prefers nightclubs and Palm Springs to the open hearth and McKeesport, calls...
...Moses' life not covered by the Bible and he would create a motion picture story. We have tried faithfully to reproduce and annotate the text of the Bible." Christopher Fry apparently was not told this because, although the Bible gives no hint what instrument Cain used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel...
From union headquarters in Pitts burgh last week came a report on nominations for various offices as recorded by locals in the U.S. and Canada. Nominations for Abel: 1,310 locals; for McDonald, 904. The locals' nominations in the past, Abel pointed out, have been a good bellwether of rank-and-file voting. In this case, he added, the strong push in his favor "reflects a clear lack of confidence" in McDonald. Election date...