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...Goldberg will need all the knowledge and guts he can muster-for organized labor is in trouble. The great labor surge of the 1930s and '40s and '50s has slowed to a standstill. Although the total U.S. work force has risen by 5,000,000 since 1955-A.F.L.-C.I.O. membership (excluding expelled unions) has dropped from 13,500,000 to 13,300,000. Such statistics tell only a small part of the story. With the basic rights of labor firmly secured by law, and after major postwar breakthroughs in the field of pensions, cost-of-living escalators, supplemental...
...meeting labor's dilemma, the driving force must come from labor itself. All the governmental paternalism in the world cannot solve labor's basic problems-but the Government can certainly urge and encourage, and Arthur Goldberg seems ready, willing and able. Goldberg is far from being the handsomest man on the New Frontier, yet he is compellingly attractive when he talks-and he loves to talk. ("He can," says an admiring Labor Department aide, "talk for two hours on one hour's briefing.") Goldberg's energy seems inexhaustible, and his personal qualifications are beyond question. Says...
...strong case could be made for the idea that Goldberg's entire life has been spent in following the path that has taken him to the big desk in the Department of Labor. His father, Joseph Goldberg, fled czarist Russia in the 1880s and wound up in Chicago, where he acquired a horse and wagon, hauled produce to downtown restaurants, and by 1892 had saved enough money to bring his wife and daughter to the U.S. Arthur was the family's seventh and last child...
...week. Says he: "They were not very particular about child-labor laws then." While in high school, he learned some harsher facts of labor life. Working for $6 a week as a suit packer in a clothing store ("I can still pack a suit pretty well"), Goldberg and some fellow employees protested at being forced to work extra hours at no extra pay. The result was decisive: "We were fired...
...Wonder. Goldberg graduated from high school at 15 and entered upon a triple-time existence. Mornings he went to a junior college, afternoons he attended De Paul University, and nights he held down a post office job. As a tired-eyed 18-year-old, he was admitted to law school at Northwestern University-but only after proving, with some difficulty, that his two college transcripts represented the work of only one person...