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...polls had not even closed when Ed Sadlowski, insurgent candidate for president of the 1.4 million-member United Steelworkers, began muttering about fraud. Brewing up a cauldron of bean soup at his cluttered campaign headquarters in Chicago, he told visitors that only by stealing the election could union chiefs deprive him of the presidency: "They've done it before, and they'll do it again." At his opponent's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Campaign Press Chief Hank Raebun phoned Organization Candidate Lloyd McBride at home in St. Louis. "We're doin' good, buddy," he crowed...
...shipped to Pittsburgh, where union aides will count them under the supervision of Labor Department watchdogs. The official results will not be announced for at least another week or two, but private counts by the candidates' organizations make the outcome clear: the grandfatherly McBride, 60, defeated the firebrand Sadlowski, 38, by a margin of about 3 to 2. His victory will bring sighs of relief at AFL-CIO headquarters and in the councils of the steel industry. It means that the federation's biggest union has been kept out of the hands of a rebel, Sadlowski...
...contest will end Feb. 8, when the union's members cast ballots in 5,360 U.S.W. local halls in the U.S. and Canada. Officials of the U.S. Department of Labor will tally the vote in Pittsburgh and announce the winner. That falls short of Sadlowski's demand that the Government run the election outright to guard against fraud. His fear of chicanery is understandable; in 1973 he ran for the job of U.S.W. district director in Chicago and Gary and was originally declared the loser. But under Government supervision the election was rerun and Sadlowski...
...Abel-McBride forces charge Sadlowski with radicalism. McBride is careful not to call Sadlowski a Communist. "I don't really know whether he is or isn't a Communist," McBride said at a Pittsburgh rally last week. "But I do know he's in bed with left-wingers...
...Sadlowski has the backing of Ralph Nader, Victor Reuther (brother of the late Walter), liberal Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, who gives money to liberal causes. Most established labor chiefs, like George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, oppose Sadlowski...