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While in law school, Goldberg worked part time as a clerk in a Chicago law office. Summers, he signed on as a construction laborer, once stepped on a rusty nail and had to wait out the then manda tory period of a week before he could collect workmen's compensation. He could not afford the loss of pay. "Ever since," he recalls, "I have not been friendly to the idea of waiting periods. Family needs don't wait...
Room at the Top. At 20, Goldberg graduated from Northwestern's law school with an A record marred only by a single B. There was never the slightest doubt that he would become a successful lawyer. In his very first case he pleaded an inheritance suit before the Illinois Supreme Court, and lost. But he lost few others over the next nine years, while building up a substantial reputation as a lawyer skilled in handling equity and corporate issues. Then, in 1938, two of Chicago's C.I.O. leaders-Van Bittner, a director of the Steelworkers' Organizing Committee...
...career was interrupted by World War II. Goldberg joined the Office of Strategic Services, spent the war in liaison with European labor unions, including those in Nazi-occupied territory, performing sabotage and espionage functions. Goldberg was discharged as a major in 1944, and the details of his work remain classified. All he will say is that published stories about his cloak-and-dagger operations behind enemy lines are false. He once wandered into German-held territory in France, but only because he had lost his way-and he quickly discovered the mistake and left the premises...
...Goldberg returned to Chicago and turned full time to being a labor lawyer. Those years are fondly remembered by his two children, Barbara, now 25, and married to a Boston intern, and Robert, now a 20-year-old junior at Amherst. During the summers, Goldberg installed his children and his wife Dorothy, a former social worker and an abstractionist painter, in a two-room cabin on the shores of Lake Michigan; he showed up on Friday nights laden with cartons of Chinese food. Goldberg appointed himself sole arbitrator of family disputes, once ruled that Barbara could not wear lipstick until...
...Goldberg moved to Washington as general counsel for both the Steelworkers and the C.I.O. When he went to Washington, labor's political and moral standing was jeopardized by the existence of eleven Communist-controlled unions within the C.I.O. Goldberg directed the meticulous, scrupulously legal C.I.O. trials that ended with the banishment of all eleven. In 1949 he devised the pension and insurance plans for the Steelworkers that were finally accepted by industry in a labor breakthrough that was followed up by the U.A.W. and other mass-production unions. "This really transformed American life." Goldberg says unabashedly. "In all this...