Word: wirtz
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During the hearings, the committee received information and advice from some 200 witnesses. Arguing for the Administration program were such officials as Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. Budget Director Kermit Gordon, and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. also spoke up, along with the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Democratic Action, the Girl Scouts and, in the person of Ralph Bellamy, Actors Equity...
...waste and inefficiency of unemployment were emphasized both in ethical and commercial terms when Secretary of Labor Willard W. Wirtz told the Joint Economic Committee that "more manpower had been lost in the past year of unemployment than in 35 years of strikes." Wirtz added that if unemployment statistics properly embraced young people trying to get into the work force, the poorly educated, the semi-skilled and the non-white, the jobless rate could be placed as high as 12 percent...
...Labor Department announced that 6.1% of the work force was out of work in February, the highest number in 15 months. Some economists blamed the increased unemployment on bad weather, noting that the biggest drops were in the weather-sensitive construction, farming and durable-goods industries. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, echoing a familiar New Frontier theme, blamed the trouble on something more basic. "Our economy today is simply not expanding fast enough," he said. "It must do so if we are to avoid an economic downturn...
Powers uses the word muscle in the sense of union strength, not of physical violence. But it is that intransigence of attitude that has, despite the pleas of President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Wirtz, despite the mediation attempts of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Robert Wagner, caused the breakdown of negotiations on issues that should be negotiable. The main issues...
...present Labor Secretary, Willard Wirtz, has shown little inclination to follow Goldberg's example. And there is good cause for believing that Government intervention, over the long haul, can do more harm than good. Explains George P. Shultz, dean of the University of Chicago's Business School: "The Government should be a reluctant intervener, not a delighted intervener. Sometimes, before a strike even happens, the Administration speculates on just what a reasonable settlement might be. Now if I'm a bargainer and I hear this kind of talk, that takes the wraps off me. I know there...