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Growing Disenchantment. In labor's own ranks, some doubts about the unions are appearing. Responsible union leaders oppose wildcat strikes and preach the need for increased productivity. Workers are beginning to have some compunctions about strikes and the pay losses involved, partly because they care more than they used to about material possessions. Today, working-class wives dream not only of washing machines and permanents but also of autos and trips abroad...
Died. Roger Wolfe Kahn, 54, test pilot, bandleader and Tin Pan Alley composer (Crazy Rhythm, Nobody Loves Me, Imagination), son of Millionaire Art Collector Otto Kahn, who formed his first band before the age of 17, later took up flying, got a World War II job testing the Grumman Wildcat fighter, stayed on to become a top executive for the Long Island, N.Y. planemaker; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they got too many card-carryin' spies feedin' off our tax money." But even this ridiculous, blustering monologue is more in fun than condemnation...
...month later, Goldberg intervened in the most costly airline strike in U.S. history, brought about settlement of a wildcat walkout of flight engineers by setting up a reviewing board of three professors. In May, Goldberg scored his most substantive single triumph. Hard on the heels of a Senate investigation into the scandalous work stoppages in missile-site construction, he got a no-strike, no-lockout commitment from labor and management, set up an arbitration committee to decide on differences while work went on. In 1960, walkouts cost the U.S. 86,000 man-days of work on its missile sites. Goldberg...
...less delighted. At week's end, wildcat strikes continued to flare up, and local contracts had been signed in only six of G.M.'s 129 plants. The odds were that many plants would be struck this week at least briefly, but most Detroiters were convinced that the "national economic agreement" between G.M. and the U.A.W. would soon be signed-and that Ford and Chrysler, in turn, would also...