LABOR: High Cost of Solidarity

Just a fortnight after the Miss America Pageant, glamorous David J. McDonald dramatically swept into the coral-colored convention hall at Atlantic City, N.J. last week to open the biennial convention of his 1,250,000-man United Steelworkers of America. The curly-haired union president, fanfared by both organ and orchestra, strode to the stage and delivered his urgent message. "I say to you delegates," he said, "if you want your union to be clean and strong, don't leave it up to the Great White Father, as I am now being called in the South. Rip this cancer out of your bowels through...

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