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Except for an irritating slowdown on missile-site construction, John Kennedy's New Frontier has been relatively free of labor trouble in its first six months. Last week Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg reported that "in the first six months of 1961, the U.S. enjoyed its greatest period of industrial peace since the end of World War II." The number of workers involved in strikes was a postwar low of 621,000 (out of an employed work force of 60 million); time lost because of strikes was 6,720,000 man-days, or only one-tenth...
...price line would not hold for long in the face of major wage hikes. With an eye on Detroit, President Kennedy and his economic advisers have emphasized that the Administration would look unkindly on inflationary labor settlements. And a month ago, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg hinted that the Administration might intervene in the auto negotiations rather than tolerate a strike...
...Enter Goldberg. With negotiations at a dead stall, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg sailed in with basically the same idea that he had used to settle two other transportation strikes this year: let both sides "voluntarily" resume work for 60 days while a three-man presidential fact-finding panel sieves the issues and submits nonbinding recommendations. Plainly this was an attempt by former Union Lawyer Goldberg to avoid taking an alternative route that he dislikes-a Taft-Hartley law injunction that would oblige the seamen to return to work for 80 days...
Management promptly accepted the Goldberg proposal. But the unions surprisingly turned it down. Joe Curran said that a voluntary 60-day return to work would probably be followed by a Taft-Hartley injunction anyhow; that would confront the unions with the chilling prospect of hitting the bricks again around Christmas. At week's end President Kennedy ordered a study to determine whether the strike was doing enough economic damage to warrant a resort to Taft-Hartley. Whatever happened, everyone concerned knew that the issue of foreign flags and the rivalry between two tough union skippers would plague U.S. waterfronts...
Others-such as Dean Rusk and Arthur Goldberg-may have captured the headlines. But many Washingtonians are beginning to realize that the top performance by a Kennedy Cabinet officer to date has been turned in by Treasury Secretary C. (for Clarence) Douglas Dillon, 51, the Cabinet's lone Republican and the quiet man of the New Frontier...