Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that single fact, there is remarkable agreement. It was recently expressed by Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, who told the National Academy of Arbitrators that "if collective bargaining can't produce peaceful settlements of these controversies, the public will." It was put another way by Labor Pundit Paul Jacobs, a long-time union representative, who is now at the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations. Said Jacobs: "The community at large became disenchanted with Big Labor right after the war. It was disenchanted at the time of the McClellan hearings. And it is disenchanted now. But what...
...Puritan Ethic. To argue its case for combining tax cuts with huge budget deficits, the Administration sent up to the Hill a host of persuasive witnesses, including, besides Gordon, Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. But committee members seemed far from persuaded. Even liberal Democrats pronounced themselves disturbed about that dizzying $11.9 billion deficit in the President's budget for fiscal 1964 (beginning next July). Heller, for one, argued that the New Frontier's program would lay open...
Compulsory arbitration is one device which labor and management, whatever their other disagreements, are united in opposing. But last week Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz (who also doesn't like the idea much) warned both sides that if the present labor crisis does not soon end. the U.S. public might demand compulsory-arbitration laws...
Both labor and management have been playing "brinksmanship." Wirtz told the National Academy of Arbitrators, and "neither the traditional collectivebargaining procedures nor the present labor-dispute laws are working to the public's satisfaction, at least so far as major labor controversies are concerned...
...Wirtz compared the current era of labor-management crisis* with the period just after World War I. the sitdown strikes of the 1930s. and the coal-rail-steel strikes of the late 1940s. Said he: "It doesn't matter any more, really, how much the hurt has been real, or has been exaggerated. A decision has been made. And that decision is that if collective bar gaining can't produce peaceful settlements of these controversies, the public will...