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What Kennedy (and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who rushed to the White House at summons from the President) said to Blough remains unreported-but it is certain that the U.S. has rarely had a madder President. When Blough left after 50 minutes, he looked far from jolly, yet he remained determined to go ahead with the price rise...
...Hater. Kennedy had been unable to recoup the Cuba disaster, and the defeat still rankles deeply. But he was certainly able to fight back against Big Steel -and he meant to do just that. To Kennedy, U.S. Steel's price-hike decision was a personal affront. Through Secretary Goldberg, he had all but presided over U.S. Steel's labor contract negotiations. He had personally urged both labor and management to exercise "restraint." His Administration had persuaded United Steelworkers' President David McDonald to agree to a "noninflationary" contract: it included no wage raise, called for an increase...
Brandished Threats. Newsmen in the new State Department Auditorium sensed immediately that they were in for a torrid session. Glancing neither to left nor right, Kennedy marched to the stage, grimly be gan reading a statement that had been drafted by Goldberg, rewritten by Aide Ted Sorensen and changed in the last minutes by Kennedy himself. "In this serious hour in our nation's history." said Kennedy, "when we are confronted with grave crises in Berlin and Southeast Asia, when we are devoting our energies to economic recovery and stability, when we are asking reservists to leave their homes...
...furthermore, Inland's Chairman Joseph L. Block is a member of Kennedy's Labor-Management Advisory Committee. So Inland was an obvious target for Administration phone calls. Commerce Under Secretary Edward Gudeman called his longtime friend Philip D. Block, vice chairman of Inland. Labor Secretary Goldberg called his old acquaintance Leigh B. Block, an Inland vice president. The day after Blough's press conference, Inland Steel Co. announced that it had decided not to raise prices "at this time." Said John F. Kennedy when he heard the news: "Good! Good! Very Good...
What Lies Ahead. Washington hailed the agreement as noninflationary, and passed word that it might well usher in a new era in labor relations. That is just what many businessmen-and union chiefs-are afraid of. Arthur Goldberg is not a man to let the headlines go by, and the steel negotiators are miffed because he hogged the limelight and made it appear as if the Kennedy Administration alone was responsible for bringing statesmanship to steel. Growled the American Metal Market: "Free collective bargaining, which has been on the way out the window, may have gone...