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...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...
...most impressive agency actively seeking a solution to the strike was an ad hoc board with no power whatsoever. This was the Board of Public Accountability, a panel of three judges-Harold R. Medina, Joseph O'Grady, David W. Peck-appointed by U.S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz last week to hear witnesses from both sides. I.T.U...
...Willard Wirtz, who fortnight ago spent a day in Manhattan vainly trying to bring both sides together, visited town again-but principally to clue himself on an incipient New York maritime strike. Going into its third week, Manhattan's newspaper strike was no nearer settlement than when it began...