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...opening night last week, some 300 people packed the West Auditorium in the Department of State building. First came a brief speech by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz and an introduc tion by Ambassador Gutierrez. Then Conductor Leonard Bernstein of the New York Philharmonic introduced his pert blonde wife, Felicia Montealegre, a onetime Chilean actress. In English and Spanish, she recited from Chilean Bards Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, which left several of the ladies-and Bernstein-misty-eyed...
...sure, his Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz, has labored patiently to bring about a settlement. Last week he even got the five operating railroad unions to agree, for the first time, to "consider" the "principle of arbitration" as a means of settling key issues. The unions decided that they still didn't care at all for the principle. Negotiations broke down...
Thus, for the first time in memory, Congress found itself being forced to legislate arbitration of a labor dispute. The precedent pleased nobody. Wirtz feared that many disputes from now on may be settled by Congress. Eventually, this could badly damage collective bargaining. Eight Democratic Senators-including Commerce Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson-produced at week's end a statement that focused on these fears. Said they: "Free collective bargaining must survive without a precedent that would substitute legislation for negotiation...
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...
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...