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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...
...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...
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...