Current generation of workers think differently, but Burke has retained great confidence in them. Recalls 1965 USWA election, when he agreed to run on I. W. Abel ticket because change was needed, and membership supported change. Found that whenever USWA troubled over dues structure or policy issues, membership responded with support if situation presented honestly. Modern workers on threshold of computer age which holds promise of smaller work force at a dozen or so “super mills.” Auto plants, workers, and trade unions all will survive but decisions ahead promise to be agonizing. If young workers lack in anything it is in “experience in the school of hard knocks,” unlike union organizers of Burke's era.
