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...party numbers many prominent personalities and well-connected organizers. Among its 100 sponsors are Barry Commoner, Studs Terkel, the best-selling writer. Richard Barnet, author of Global Reach and a founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, a leftwing think tank, Steel Workers insurgent Ed Sadlowski and the heads of the Gray Panthers, the National Public Interest Research Group, the Black Economic Research Center and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The party also has sponsors with channels to potential financial supporters. The include David Hunter, executive director of the Stern Fund, Adam Hochschild, publisher of Mother Jones, Archibald Gillies...
...book has come from the PROD and TDU dissidents, who claim that Brill just doesn't deal with the possibilities for reform in the union. The dissidents would rather Brill had looked into reform movements in other unions, the Mineworkers' anti-Tony Boyle campaign, say, or the Sadlowski insurgency in the Steelworkers, to figure out why such movements succeed or fail. That kind of analysis would have been much more useful than any series of profiles of the bosses, the dissidents...
...their purchases of foreign metal. But, says one steel executive, if interruptions like the ore strike make customers feel insecure, "the whole purpose of ENA is defeated." On the union side, the walkout dramatizes the feeling of some militants that giving up the strike weapon emasculates the union. Ed Sadlowski made that argument vehemently in his losing campaign for U.S.W. president last winter, and he had many supporters on the Mesabi Range, who are now bracing themselves for a long walkout. Says one 31-year-old striker: "This strike is about union dignity...
...campaign was one of the most vituperative ever seen in a union election, and it continued that way to the end. On the weekend before the polling, retiring President I.W. Abel, who had hand-picked McBride as his heir, flew to Chicago to attack Sadlowski on his home turf. "I've known Ed Sadlowski for twelve years," sneered the white-haired Abel, "and I know his lack of ability, his lack of dedication." McBride repeated his charge that "outsiders and limousine liberals" were his opponent's main backers. Sadlowski, for his part, called Abel, McBride and Meany "well...
When all the shouting was over, though, it became apparent that McBride, not Sadlowski, had read the union members' mood correctly. Sadlowski had become something of a liberals' darling by portraying himself as a lance bearer for the downtrodden, a champion of militant bargaining with the industry who would also work for social change through unionism. But basic Steelworkers average about $8 an hour, hardly a depressed wage; many live in the suburbs, and few are disposed to left-leaning politics. Surprisingly for a third-generation "mill rat," Sadlowski turned many workers off by referring repeatedly...