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...twelve years as head of the union dealing with the nation's most basic industry, he is, by every present standard, a less than even choice to retain his job in the elections to be held next Feb. 9. McDonald is, in fact, confronted by a rank-and-file revolt, and beneath a multitude of more formal complaints festers the grievance of the men in the mills that their president is not one of them and does not really care about them...
...Good Life. His control was shaky from the start. He moved into an American Locomotive Co. strike early in 1953, negotiated a private settlement with the firm's president-and saw his own strike committee promptly repudiate the agreement. He further alienated the rank and file by successfully backing a crony, without significant mill experience, for a union vice-presidency in 1955 against the candidacy of the Buffalo district's rough-hewn Irish leader, Joseph P. Molony. The extent of the Steelworkers' restlessness was demonstrated in 1957 when Donald Rarick, a relatively unknown Irwin, Pa., local leader...
High living by union leaders is a common complaint among rank and file these days (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet anti-McDonald Steelworkers peg their campaign more formally to the charge that he has neglected the problems of the union's 2,600 locals. While overall wage patterns and working conditions are negotiated in union contracts with the big steel companies, locals are bound by no-strike pledges in arguing local grievances-and the grievance machinery has completely bogged down. It takes three years for some such cases to be resolved. Instead of working to soothe such gripes himself, McDonald...
Through many of these disparate disputes ran one common thread: a rebel lion against national union chiefs by angry lieutenants, ambitious local lead ers and restless rank and file. A new and independent union that recently ousted two less militant A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions shut down two-thirds of the West Coast paper industry by calling the first strike there in 30 years. In steel, the prospects of a strike next spring have been heightened by a battle for the presidency of the United Steelworkers (see THE NATION). And it is painfully obvious that Walter Reuther has had his hands full...
...convention system of nominating Presidential candidates must "sooner or later" give way to "nomination by vote of the party rank and file," John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, predicted yesterday...