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Some Europeans played into rebel hands-for instance, the Belgian owner of a sugar mill who felt it was better to deal with the people in power than lose his sugar crop: from neighboring Burundi he continued to bring in supplies and gasoline, which the rebels regularly confiscated, thus gaining enough fuel to attack Albertville...
...rebels reassured the owner by formally signing for everything-they delight in mixing barbarism with bureaucracy-but before long, they held all the sugar workers as hostages and were manufacturing cannon in the mill workshops...
Such shrewdness irked other mill-owners, but it came as little surprise. Gul Mohamed Adamjee, 44, has not only made his mills a South Asia showcase of enlightened management (Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have visited them) but has propelled himself into the industry's top position as Pakistan's "Jute King." His Adamjee Jute Mills Ltd. produce a third of Pakistan's jute goods and consume more raw jute than all of the mills in Britain, which ranks second to Pakistan in the manufacture of jute products...
...many of the fire-eating unionists of the open-hearth and blast furnaces, McDonald has been suspect from the start. A college graduate (Carnegie Tech, '32) who once aspired to a career in the theater, he was a mill clerk when he attracted the attention of the union's founding president, Philip Murray, with his organizational talents. Murray selected McDonald as secretary-treasurer of the union in 1942, made it clear that McDonald was his heir apparent. When Murray died in 1952, McDonald stepped almost automatically into the presidency...
...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, protesting a union dues hike...