"We are going home. This farcical filibuster has ended." So said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week as he and his aides broke off Manhattan negotiations with management on the eleven-week-old steel strike, left for Pittsburgh. Said McDonald: "The industry has not offered one cent. You cannot bargain with a stone wall."
Replied R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for management: "The steelworkers' union has not deviated from its insistence that the companies grant increases in wages and benefits of inflationary proportions. The steel companies cannot yield to such demands."
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