Word: mcdonald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strikebrinkism. To try to bring pressure for a settlement, David J. McDonald, boss of the 1,250,000-member United Steelworkers union, had slipped away last week from bargaining sessions, flown to Pittsburgh for a private talk with Vice President Nixon. McDonald pleaded for government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly...
...deadline neared, industry's Cooper summed up management's case in calm, assured tones, basing it heavily on the state of the economy and management's "complete conviction as to the merit in the public interest." In reply, Dave McDonald attacked management's position as "a mock crusade against inflation," called its whole stance one of "strikebrinkism." Said McDonald: "They say to the union: Surrender unconditionally, and then we will dictate our terms for your acceptance...
...from the nation's steel mills last week marched 30,000 wildcat strikers, defying the two-week truce in steel framed by President Eisenhower. Thus did the rank and file put pressure on management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...
Within minutes after he received Ike's letter, Dave McDonald announced that the union would stay at work until July 15. He also retreated from the stand that he would extend the contract only if any wage hikes in any new contract would be retroactive to July 1, an issue on which previous negotiations had floundered. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, the man who has most to say about bargaining matters, and the heads of eleven other steel companies agreed to the new terms. This week negotiations were resumed at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt...
...Emergency. Ike's letter was an answer to a letter from McDonald, who was so anxious to have the Administration take a hand in negotiations that he asked the President to appoint a fact-finding board to look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked...