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...Secretary Goldberg's "exercise room," Bobby's handball court and President Kennedy's heated swimming pool, perhaps Economic Adviser Heller could set up a trampoline and our sagging economy would bounce back...
From Arthur Goldberg on down, government mediators have been so involved in recent labor-management bargaining that a lot of people have forgotten that settlement can come any other way. Last week the U.S. got a pleasant reminder-with less fuss and happier results. After more than a month of negotiations so quiet that they escaped public notice, the United Steelworkers of America and the nation's five major aluminum companies signed two-year contracts that provide no wage increases for 27,000 union workers but give them improved vacation, pension and supplemental unemployment benefits...
Clague's speech hit the Administration hard. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, Clague's superior, issued a swift, snappish rebuttal: "The economic facts do not bear out such an assumption." Clague was telephoned, bawled out, and told to pull back. He and Goldberg worked out an "amplification." "I wish to make it clear that I was not making a prediction," said Clague. "only analyzing historic economic movements...
Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg and his aides struggled mightily to head off a threatened strike of three major airlines by disgruntled flight engineers. Fortified by innumerable hamburgers and countless cups of coffee, they closeted themselves by day and night in the Labor Department's Washington office, working for a union settlement with Trans World Airlines that would stand as a model for the other two airlines involved. Finally, having spent 55 of the previous 72 hours in negotiations, Goldberg emerged to announce a historic settlement"-and to claim, by inference, a victory for the Administration's policy...
...going to get back 100%." After enviously eying the handball court, solarium and showers over at Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department, Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg, 53, set up an exercise room, for his own laborers. Trim and flat-bellied. Goldberg nevertheless planned to spend a lot of time there. "When your frustrations begin to get the best of you," said the man-in-the-middle of arguments ranging from sopranos to flight engineers, "working over the punching bag is great medicine...