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...biggest bar to full recovery remains unemployment. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg announced last week that 25 more areas have been added to the list of labor markets in which at least 6% of the local work force is without jobs. That brought the total of such areas in March to 101-fully two-thirds of all the nation's major industrial areas, and the highest such total on record. In the 1958 recession the peak was only 89 areas. The Labor Department also announced that the consumer price index, which dropped in January for the first time...
...committee is to be effective, it will have to work with the Justice Department to enforce compliance to its rules with injunctions. And Secretary of Labor Goldberg will have to use more than decency and good will if he is to convince building trades unions to end their discriminatory practices. Kennedy has set up machinery which he is absolutely free to use, unhampered by Congress. If the new committee is as ineffective as the old ones, the blame will fall squarely on his shoulders, and voters will be justified in concluding that his civil rights talk was just talk...
...Over?" His appointment list was crammed. The President was very available, from breakfast sessions with the Democratic leaders of Congress to moonlight meetings with the airline strike fact-finding commission. He was especially attentive to Congressmen, many of whom were dazzled by the ardent courtship. When Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg hurried to the Oval Room with the airlines' strike settlement in his dispatch case (see BUSINESS), Kennedy greeted him with a broad grin and a question: "Is it over?" By personally announcing that it was, he signaled that he intends to wade deep into national labor controversies...
Speeding Up Buying. Later in the week, the President named a 21-man Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, including Secretary of Labor Goldberg. Secretary of Commerce Hodges and equal representation from management, labor and the public.* - His general plan is to use all the persuasion and pressure at his command to moderate big labor's wage demands and big business' price rises. At the same time, the Administration will try to increase the incomes of low-pay and largely nonunionized groups by such means as boosting the minimum wage for the unskilled and service workers...
...rise in unemployment has raised some new alarms around an old scare word: automation. How much has the rapid spread of technological change contributed to the current high of 5,400,000 out of work? Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg last week set up a special group to find an answer. While no one has yet sorted out the jobs lost because of the overall drop in business from those lost through automation and other technological changes, many a labor expert tends to put much of the blame on automation. In Illinois, where 315,000 are unemployed, State Labor Director Robert...