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...crisp, clear, early autumn morning last week, LeTendre began a typical 16-hour campaign day-typical for him and for the 137 other Republicans and Democrats competing for marginal seats. Young (33), articulate, conservative and a former president of the National Jaycees, LeTendre ventured into a feed mill, roadside restaurant, bakery and hardware store. His opponent was "spending crazy," LeTendre charged. Agreeing with a disgruntled early morning beer drinker that property tax revenues should not be used for welfare, the candidate argued that Nixon's proposal to share federal revenues with the states would ease the local tax burden...
...misleading impression of a deepening slump. In early 1971, Okun adds, catch-up production by G.M. will paint an equally deceptive "rosy glow" on the economy. David Grove believes that this false picture will be heightened by steel users, who will be buying heavily to hedge against a possible mill strike in August...
...that, Abel gave his "solemn pledge" that a cost-of-living escalator, which the U.S.W. gave up in 1959, will be restored. He will also propose that the entire steel industry shut down for two weeks' vacation in the summer. That would be a costly proposition to the mill managers, who would have to bank their furnaces during that time...
Catch Up Is Not Enough. Steelworkers used to set the pace for labor. Says Morris Burmmit, a union local president at the Jones & Laughlin mill in Aliquippa, Pa.: "Now we don't want just to catch up. We want to set the pace again." The average steelworker earns $4.19 an hour in base pay, or $170.53 weekly. If he earned that year round, as few do, his annual earnings would be $8,860-or $739 less than the auto worker's average income. The auto workers are now in the fourth week of their own strike...
Were I true to my roots I'd now be a laborer in a paper or textile mill, married and the father of two children, a veteran of action in Vietnam, and a reasonably brainwashed communicant in a Roman Catholic, predominantly Irish parish. Instead, I am a lazy good-for-nothing, probably a Communist dupe, and live on a communal farm, way into the backwoods of Vermont. What went wrong...