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After only one day in New York, U.S. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz gloomily concluded that he could do nothing about settling the city's newspaper strike (TIME. Dec. 14). The publishers and the striking printers, said he. were still "very far apart''; the nation's mightiest metropolitan press would probably stay out of action for "days or weeks." The forecast seemed inevitable. Even before Wirtz arrived, the strike had degenerated into a deadlock of stubborn wills...
...Murphy were summoned to Washington over the weekend by Attorney General Kennedy. They discussed the PBH volunteer program in mental health with the President's fact-finding committee on a "National Service Corps." Other members of the committee who attended the meeting included Cabinet members Orville Freeman, Willard Wirtz, Stuart Udall, and Luther Hodges...
Everybody was talking tax cut, and few more emphatically than the President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy, a 21-member group including Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. Said the committee last week: "The U.S. can and must improve its recent record of economic progress. Economic policy should be directed at strengthening the expansionary powers of the economy. Our objective should be twofold: in the short run we must increase total demand for both consumption and investment; in the long run we must achieve a more rapid rate of growth of our productivity capacity...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz analyzes the state and future of the U.S. economy...
...nearer the Guild's original demand than management's first offer. The News also suffered another embarrassment. The New York Times, not directly involved in the strike, was actively involved in ending it. It was at the request of the Times that U.S. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz rushed to Manhattan to lend his authority to a settlement...