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Weighing all factors, both U.S. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Otto Eckstein, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, predict continued price stability...
Organized labor is less than ever a monolithic segment of a fragmented national society. No more can it afford to make purely demagogic demands of industry, and to an unprece dented degree, labor and management are forced to work together. In this sense, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz is fond of quoting Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark...
...Pious Thoughts." All week long L.B.J. kept his blowtorch trained on the negotiators. He had Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz looking over United Steelworkers' President I. W. Abel's shoulder and Commerce Secretary John Connor hovering near Top Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. When that tactic flagged, he sent Wirtz over to hound management and Connor to rile labor. After a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders, he sent them trotting out of the White House clutching conveniently typed statements calling for a settlement. Almost minute by minute he received progress reports from his aides...
What Shuman can claim overwhelming credit for is the defeat of the 1963 nationwide wheat referendum, which shook the Kennedy Administration to its socks. It was the Gettysburg of the war between farmer and bureaucrat-and Shuman was its General Meade. The referendum's Robert E. Lee was Willard Cochrane, then Freeman's director of agricultural economics, a tough-minded theoretician whose ideas proved politically unacceptable...
Crisis in the Making. Fortunately, Shuman's blood pressure is low, for there is little likelihood that the farm mess will be solved in the near future. Any substantial answer lies elusively between the extremes represented by Charles Shuman and Willard Cochrane. The Shuman Farm Bureau approach, calling for complete freedom in the marketplace, strikes a deep emotional chord but runs head-on into economic and political difficulties. Cochrane's solution, a farmer-proof system of mandatory production controls, defies the character and political power of the farmer...