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...minimize the wrath of the nation's 3,500,000 unionized and politically potent hardhats. In January, he asked labor and management chiefs to devise a voluntary program to stabilize the industry's skyscraping costs (TIME, Feb. 15). Two weeks ago, he sent Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Harvard Economics Professor John Dunlop to negotiate with the building trades' executive council at Bal Harbour, Fla. Dunlop tried to win labor's tacit consent to a temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage board with power to lower wage increases...
...President had publicly committed himself to a meaningful blow against construction inflation. "There will be action," he promised. Baseball Fan Nixon added that if Hodgson "struck out, then we'll be up to bat." After the President took his swing last week, A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany condemned the move as "punitive" and "unfair" because it did not restrain the rising price of land or materials, or limit profits. "Disappointing, inadequate and totally ineffective," said William E. Dunn, executive director of the Associated General Contractors of America. "The suspension may have some long-range results, but it will...
Although Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson claimed the move was not anti-union, it is expected to shift a large amount of Federal construction to low-er-paid non-union workers. Federal and federally assisted projects worth about $25 billion are affected...
...Labor Department spokesman said that Dunlop also met Monday with Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson and that the two men "explored all the possibilities," including a freeze on wages and prices, in talks on spiralling building costs. Their recommendations were not expected to reach the President before midweek, the spokesman said...
...Needs Hollywood? The Government's reduction in war spending accounted for much of the new unemployment. Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson points out that at least one-third of the rise in joblessness during the past 18 months came from defense cutbacks: net reductions of 500,000 servicemen, 130,000 Defense Department civilian employees and 1,500,000 defense workers. Stubborn pockets of high unemployment in Seattle (10.9%), Wichita, Kans. (9.3%), and Bridgeport, Conn. (7.1%) bear witness to the disrupted careers of Americans who once got high pay in high-technology industries. Some have moved to Europe or Mexico...