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Today most union leaders consider a 35-hour week necessary. Van Arsdale's appointment as temporary chairman of the convention indicates this change. "When society isn't dealing with the unemployment problem," Walter Reuther said, "the labor movement has to fight negatively for a short week. It is a negative defense mechanism...
...Reuther's attitude results in part from the government's failure to develop any coherent or integrated approach to automation. In fact, most programs have paralleled Secretary of Labor Wirtz's speech to the convention. He said that "capitalism with a conscience and a government that says its business is people can meet the challenge of technology." Rather than outlining any immediate measures, he called for improving education in order to give "young Americans the skills they need in an automated work force...
...move for a shorter week and higher hourly wages is probably designed to make the national government find ways of lessening the effects of automation and to force the passage of pro-labor legislation. As Reuther said, "Labor expects some dividends for the output of energy and dollars at the polls." New York's Liberal Party, which often holds the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans and as a result is favored by both parties, recently received the support of several unions. Labor obviously wants to make its political influence felt...
Their attitude toward President Johnson is less friendly. Many, particularly the liberals such as Reuther, David Dubinsky, and Alex Rose, were very unenthusiastic about his nomination as vice-President but his performance in office has vitiated some of their fears. They will probably support him in 1964, hoping to gain his support for government action against increased unemployment and automation...
Into a Tight Corner. Last week in Manhattan, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany called advancing automation "a curse" and repeated his call for a 35-hour week-both positions that the Administration's economists have rejected. Fortnight ago Walter Reuther told a meeting of union chiefs that Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, had "understated" the unemployment problem. Criticism of specific Administration economic proposals has also been coming with more regularity from such academic economists as Yale's William Fellner, Vanderbilt's Rendigs Fels and Michigan State University's Charles Killingsworth, who recently...