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...having come down to $180 million, cut its demands even more. But the two could not seem to come any closer, and the bargaining mood worsened after the Transit Authority turned down union bids to have Quill and his eight colleagues released from custody. President Johnson sent Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to New York to discuss the impasse with negotiators, and Wirtz returned to Washington to report gloomily: "The situation still remains uncertain and serious." In response to an appeal from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Johnson announced that the Federal Government would grant low-interest loans and other aids to small...
...immediate problem that Viet Nam and the threat of inflation pose to Washington's economic planners is whether they should aim for more growth or more stability. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz...
...barons of organized labor met for their biennial convention-and the tenth anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger-Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz aptly summarized the challenge confronting the unions in the affluent society. Said he: "Never before has the country faced so clearly the choice that it now faces between moving ahead or settling for what we now have, for leaning back, if you will, and patting our stomachs." For all the well-upholstered abdomens in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, there were signs of change by convention's end last week...
...Empire Building." In Newark, N.J., Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio has been locked in struggle with the United Community Corporation, the agency that took control of the city's anti-poverty program. When Addonizio warned the U.C.C. against "empire building," its president, Rutgers Law Dean C. Willard Heckel, vowed that the agency "would alter the power structure of the city." Many politicians fear that is no idle boast. In Los Angeles, it took the Watts riots to persuade Democratic Mayor Samuel Yorty to accept even seven representatives of "disadvantaged" areas on his 35-member poverty board...
Inflation, as a topic if not a reality, was on just about everyone's mind and tongue last week. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler saw "disturbing signs," while Commerce Secretary John Connor and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz had words of reassurance. Lyndon Johnson asked his top economic advisers to come to the Texas ranch soon to talk about the economy, but his aides insisted that he was not really worried...