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...York City's hapless Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner tried, and failed. New York state's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller tried, and made no visible progress. Then, on the day after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Labor, longtime Union Lawyer Arthur Goldberg flew to Manhattan to make his own effort toward ending the railroad-tugboat strike that had stranded some 100,000 commuters and stalled railroad travel as far west as Chicago. After 14 hours behind closed doors with union and management negotiators, Goldberg emerged triumphant-and next day the trains began to run again...
...National Interest." Goldberg came armed with a potent weapon. President Kennedy, he said, felt that a strike settlement was required "in the national interest." Key to the truce: management and the three striking unions led by the Seafarers agreed to delay a decision as to which side should fix the size of work crews; they would wait a year for recommendations from an Eisenhower-appointed commission on railroad work rules, headed by former Labor Secretary James Mitchell...
...same basic idea of waiting had been alternately proposed and rejected by both sides before Goldberg arrived. He won agreement by arranging for the Mitchell Commission to consider the tugboat dispute separately and promising that the federal, state and city governments would prod labor and management alike to heed the commission proposals. Clearly, the Goldberg settlement marked a victory in politics and public relations for the Kennedy Administration and set it on a course apart from the Eisenhower Administration in labor policy...
...other unions be tougher. As Secretary Goldberg left Manhattan, the militant National Maritime Union was leading 3,500 nonrailroad tuggers in separate negotiations and holding out for wage boosts of 33¼%. The tuggers threatened to call a far greater strike this week, stop most of the fuel shipments into the city and prevent most ocean liners from docking at the world's busiest port...
...unemployment situation is very grave." With these words, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg last week voiced the new Administration's concern about its biggest domestic problem. The Labor Department announced that the number of workers drawing insured unemployment benefits rose by 228,900 in January's first week to reach 3,300,000, or 8.1% of all those covered and just short of a record number for the 24-year-old compensation plan. Since insured unemployment figures usually preview total unemployment figures (two-thirds of the labor force is protected by unemployment compensation), the Labor Department now figures...