The 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. "We got...
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