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