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...Long Hand. Goldberg had told the Executives' Club of Chicago that "Government has the obligation to define the national interest and assert it when it reaches important proportions in an area of our economy. This is what your Government is going to do. I think the Government has got to give more help to the collective bargaining process." Goldberg quickly explained that the Administration was against wage and price controls and against compulsory arbitration "as a general principle," but elements within both management and labor saw the long hand of Government interference in his words. Said A.F.L.-C.I.O. President...
...fuss was surprising not only because Goldberg had said the same thing, but because no one disputes the duty of management and labor to consider the national interest. At least one major executive had no quarrel with Goldberg. Said Inland Steel Chairman Joseph L. Block: "I heartily endorse Mr. Goldberg's concept. A contest of strength where the stronger side wins doesn't prove a thing. Each side has to represent its own interest, but neither side must be unmindful of the needs of the nation. Who else can point out those needs but the Government...
...steel, airlines, railroads, missiles and spacecraft-and the Government clearly intends to define the national interest in terms of economic growth, foreign competition and national security. As far as most Americans are concerned, that is fine. What bothered both labor and management last week was that they saw behind Goldberg's seemingly innocent words another step in the Kennedy Administration's tendency to move into disputes (tugboats, airline flight engineers, steel) and restrict the negotiators' range of choice. Their fear is that the national interest "guidelines" that Goldberg is prepared to assert could amount to Government dictation...
Having declared their independence, both sides curiously enough expected more Government intervention, and in a way hoped for it. Heretofore, President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Goldberg have spoken only in generalities of the national need for statesmanship in steel. If they now become more specific, and particularly if they endorse what McDonald wants, management could give it to him and then blame the Kennedy Administration for any subsequent price rises in steel. In the meantime, the entire U.S. economy was threatened with the dislocation sure to follow hurry-up buying of steel as a hedge against a possible strike...
...apple" run may be paid $39.95 for only four hours' work because he traveled 160 miles, while the engineer of a slower train may have to work ten hours to collect $34.33 because he traveled only 100 miles. Commented Rifkind: "Whoever invented that system belongs to the Rube Goldberg club." The commission proposed that the straightforward test of hours worked be given greater weight in wage formulas. Other commission proposals...