Laying in a heavy stock of his favorite pipe tobacco for what looked likely to be a lengthy siege, white-maned United Steelworkers' President David John McDonald last week set down his price for peace in steel: "More!" Among other things, McDonald's 171-man wage and policy committee asked for "substantial wage increases, modernized cost-of-living adjustments, a shorter work week, additional holidays, greater vacation benefits and improved supplemental unemployment benefits, insurance benefits, pensions."
For purposes of later horse trading, the committee as usual gave no dollar figures. But Dave McDonald, who this week opens negotiations...
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