Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task of the Secretary of Labor, and probably his most delicate one, to set the tone of the Administration in major labor-management disputes. In that, George Pratt Shultz stands in sharp contrast to his activist Democratic predecessors, Arthur Goldberg and Willard Wirtz, who intervened frequently if reluctantly at Lyndon Johnson's behest. Before last week's strike against General Electric, Shultz held private meetings with company officials and union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free...
Shultz's conviction that imposed agreements are often fragile and brittle closely parallels President Nixon's thinking. The Labor Secretary has a talent for translating the President's theory into policy, and that has made him one of the most powerful men in Washington. As TIME Washington Correspondent Marvin Zim reports: "If politicians gave a rookie-of-the-year award, the prize for 1969 would go to Shultz. After coming to Washington without any political experience, he has clearly become a top Cabinet officer, an adviser whose counsel is sought and whose judgment bears extra distinction simply...
Clever Compromises. Nixon hardly knew Shultz when he appointed him Secretary of Labor. The President was impressed by a pre-election task-force report on manpower that Shultz had written and by the enthusiastic recommendations of his closest economic advisers, Arthur Burns and Paul McCracken. Mild-mannered and professorial, the new Secretary seemed at first to be another unremarkable technician in a Cabinet noted for its blandness. His speeches still resemble a lecture in Business Administration...
...Have Bananas. Shultz is the first economist to become Secretary of Labor, a post usually assigned to lawyers. He labors hard himself, arriving at his desk at 7:30 a.m. and often returning to work in the evening, with occasional time out for tennis or golf. Once he beat A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany by ten strokes (80 to 90). Son of a New York Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T...
...awareness that communist societies too are, by all accounts, not especially attentive to "human costs of rapid growth" such as described. The predisposition might also reflect a concern for other "human costs" as well, human costs represented by, for example, the incarceration of millions of persons in penal labor camps in the USSR under the five year plans, and by similar experiences in other communist countries; human costs about which former inmates (Solzhenitsen, Ginzburg, Lobl) have told us vividly enough, if we only wish to know of them: human costs, too, such as those evidenced by the continued harsh suppression...