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...need to mention names. Everyone knew Abel meant Ed Sadlowski, the 38-year-old director of U.S.W. District 31, which includes Chicago and Gary, Ind. The engaging, rough-talking Sadlowski plans to announce this week that he will run for U.S.W. president against pro-Abel Candidate Lloyd McBride, 60, the head of St. Louis-centered District 34. Sadlowski has some chance of winning the February election, given the Steelworkers' tradition of successful insurgencies. Abel himself ousted David J. McDonald as union president in 1965, and Sadlowski won his district presidency in a bitter 1974 campaign against an Abel-backed...
Machine Oiler. If Sadlowski does become the Steelworkers' chief, both the economy and the climate of the nation's labor-management relations could significantly be affected. The U.S.W., one of the unions whose contracts often set a pattern for others, has recently developed a tradition of peaceful and cooperative bargaining. It has not called an industry-wide strike since a marathon 116-day struggle...
...Sadlowski, who went to work at 18 as a machine oiler for U.S. Steel in Gary, and has been working in union jobs since age 22, will have none of that tradition. He talks an unabashed 1930s brand of labor radicalism, naming as his heroes Socialist Eugene V. Debs and John L. Lewis, and describes his goals for the Steelworkers in the single word change. He rails against "tuxedo unionism" -the proclivity of leaders to hobnob with management-and pledges to reduce union salaries, presumably including the president's $75,000 a year. He wants less noise and dirt...
...Among Sadlowski's biggest targets is the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, signed in 1973 by the U.S.W. and the steel companies and first applied to an actual contract in 1974. The agreement was hailed as a model of labor statesmanship because it combined flexibility on wages and benefits with a prohibition against strikes. The three-year contract now in effect, for example, gave the workers large increases the first year, guaranteed smaller raises the second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled...
...Crimson has a definite advantage in the "C" tournament. Both Alan Quasha and Dan Gordon are undefeated and both easily beat their Penn opponents two weeks ago. Only the Quaker's number five, Chris Sadlowski, should challenge them and a match between Gordon and Sadkowski would be crucial...