Word: statesmanship
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...That is just what many businessmen-and union chiefs-are afraid of. Arthur Goldberg is not a man to let the headlines go by, and the steel negotiators are miffed because he hogged the limelight and made it appear as if the Kennedy Administration alone was responsible for bringing statesmanship to steel. Growled the American Metal Market: "Free collective bargaining, which has been on the way out the window, may have gone all the way." At the Pittsburgh press conference where the tentative agreement was announced, both Cooper and McDonald glowered sullenly until a photographer prodded them into brief, mechanical...
Having declared their independence, both sides curiously enough expected more Government intervention, and in a way hoped for it. Heretofore, President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Goldberg have spoken only in generalities of the national need for statesmanship in steel. If they now become more specific, and particularly if they endorse what McDonald wants, management could give it to him and then blame the Kennedy Administration for any subsequent price rises in steel. In the meantime, the entire U.S. economy was threatened with the dislocation sure to follow hurry-up buying of steel as a hedge against a possible strike...
...move, which is against Senate traditions. Arriving on the Senate floor to fight the petition, McClellan growled to a colleague: "I don't know if I'm a Democrat any more." Thundered he to the Senate: "The brightness of the legislative sky is clouded, the brilliance of statesmanship is dimmed, and the light of fairness and justice in this chamber is darkened today by this deplorable action." For the first time in 20 years, every member of the Senate was present to vote-and the roll call was a stunning rebuke to the Administration. The count against...
...appropriate indication of the present mood in the steel industry lies in the date picked for the opening of 1962 contract negotiations-St. Valentine's Day. Amid mutual professions of sweetness and statesmanship, both labor and management last week spread word that they expect no repetition of 1959's disastrous, 116-day strike, have decided to start their talks earlier than before so that they can iron out their differences well before the current three-year contract expires on June 30. Bluff David J. McDonald. 59, president of the United Steelworkers, was jocularly casual about how he expected...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, called Kennedy's tariff-cutting requests "a major act of statesmanship," but said it is "anyone's guess" whether Congress will give him the authority he requested over tariff rates...