Word: wirtz
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June. With negotiations getting nowhere, Labor Secretary Wirtz persuades the railroads to postpone their deadline again, from June 12 to June 18. Three days before that deadline, President Kennedy meets with management and union leaders, asks them to keep negotiating until July...
When he appeared last February before the grand moguls of labor gathered near Miami Beach. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz warned A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders that public displeasure over such failures in collective bargaining as the dock and New York newspaper strikes might lead to stricter labor legislation. Last week in St. Louis, Wirtz faced the nation's labor leaders again-and this time his mood was one of pleasure. Said he: "There have been some real gains made in collective bargaining." The mood of the U.S. labor movement seems to have changed too, and the result has been the best...
Labor's generally more tractable mood stems partly from what Wirtz calls "the iron law of necessity"-the result of the public and congressional outcry at last winter's crippling strikes that has forced both management and labor to be more reasonable. Just as important, when millions of men are out of work, labor also has little heart for strikes or exorbitant demands. "If there's a high level of unemployment," says A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "there's a tendency for the unions to settle for less...
...this climate. President Kennedy had a most pleasant week. He and Jackie toured Maryland's Antietam battlefield (his guide dutifully allowed as how the President was quite an expert on the bloodiest day of the Civil War). It took some frantic negotiations by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to get striking hot dog and soda pop vendors at D.C. Stadium to pull off their pickets so that the Democratic President could enter to watch the Washington Senators' opening game. Kennedy threw out the first ball and very nearly beaned a photographer...
Unemployment melted surprisingly in March and made the biggest drop in four years, from 6.1% to 5.6% of the labor force. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz took little satisfaction from the new statistics. "My feeling," he said, "is about what it would be if somebody's temperature dropped back from 104° to 103°.'' U.S. labor leaders are in fervent agreement with Wirtz, and their current pattern of contract negotiating is calculated to create jobs by spreading out the available work...