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...labor and antitrust laws make quite a nutcracker. Sighed one union official: "Let's face it-we're going to be living with the Kennedys for a helluva long time." This, according to one insider, is what the Administration did: One day last December, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg had as his private lunch guest U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, who is the steel companies' chief bargainer and was Goldberg's adversary in the 1959-60 steel negotiations. Goldberg impressed upon "Coop" that John Kennedy wanted early bargaining and a quick settlement...
...Goldberg then opened a telephone barrage to steel leaders across the U.S. After a two-hour discussion in the White House between Kennedy, Goldberg, McDonald and U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, the formal negotiations began-only to break down abruptly, with both sides far apart (TIME, March 9). Several days later, Blough and then McDonald were summoned to Goldberg's office. The President also talked with each of them on the telephone. Just what carrots and sticks were held out, the Administration does not say-but the negotiators promptly got together again and settled down to resolving their differences...
SEYMOUR M. GOLDBERG Boston...
What of the widespread fears that deep cuts in U.S. tariffs would open up the U.S. to a deluge of cheap-labor imports? Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg testified that the "displacement" of U.S. workers as a result of tariff cuts would be "small" and would be "more than offset by the number of jobs generated by an expanding export trade." And for companies and workers injured by increased imports, there would be "adjustment assistance" loans and technical help for companies, relief payments for laid-off workers (up to 65% of the average weekly manufacturing wage for as long...
...heaviest artillery. This week's lead-off witness, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, is expected to point out that of last year's $15 billion in U.S. imports, $9 billion worth consisted of raw materials that actually helped to make U.S. jobs. Afterward, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg will stress that the Kennedy bill provides for Government "adjustment assistance" to companies, managers and workers who are damaged by trade liberalization. Also going up to testify: Treasury's Dillon, Agriculture's Freeman, Defense's McNamara, and free-trading spokesmen for everyone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...