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...most critical economic problem facing the U.S. is the failure to achieve the necessary economic growth," declares the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Economic Policy Committee, chaired by United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. Necessary for what? For "improved living standards" and "defense and military requirements" and "the social needs of an ever enlarging population." The Administration's stress on price stability, charges the statement, is a "surefire prescription for stagnation...
Among advocates of more federal spending, the figure 5% has become a sort of magic number of yearly economic growth. "Our economy," says Walter Reuther, "should be expanding, at the very least, at a rate of 5% a year." Average yearly rate since the 1870s: 3%. In their swelling stack of pamphlets, proponents of 5%-a-year growth do not argue the realism of their goal in hard economic terms. As authority for it, they point out that last spring a Rockefeller Brothers Fund panel, sprinkled with big businessmen, urged a 5% growth rate...
Student opinion was in favor of inviting Reuther to deliver the annual series, given last year by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, the Committee member continued, and this may have been a factor in the decision of the Department of Preventive Medicine in asking...
According to Gardella, Reuther, if he accepts the invitation, will probably speak on "how labor regards medicine," and what labor expects of the medical profession. Earlier this year, one of the medical advisers of the AFL-CIO lectured at the Medical School on the health program set up for UAW members in Detroit...
...Reuther will most likely reply to the offer within a week. The former President of the United Auto Workers gave a lecture series in the fall on the problems of labor in American at Yale, where he was received by the student body with mixed reactions...