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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON KEEP SENATOR LYNN flEWBRY WORKING for YOU Pd. Pol. Adv., NewSry for St. Sen. Comm., Chtt Hubbjrd Chm., 2451 Lymjn st.( Med ford, Oregon I 1; ' ! H Labor Head To Spend Less Time on Disputes R LOUIS CASSELS Washington -iUPI. - W. Wil lard Wirtz, the new Secretary f I nhnr intends tn reduce drastically the amount of 1 time he spends in rcfereeing labor-management disputes. "1 helieve the iob of strike j mediation has got to be taken out oi me irom uinuu hnu put on an operating basis," he told United Press Irlerna lional in an interview. Wirtz agrees with his pre decessor, Arthur J. Goldberg, that the government should move in to help settle dis putes which seriously affect the public interest. I But UnilKC LrOlClOLTK, who CHRYSTAL MEATS The House of Personal Service 4th and Fir Phone 772-7315 HAMS Shank Half lb. 45 WHOLE HAMS 47 BUTT HALF HAM 49 f i w Bacon SquaressmekL ib 23c R,b s,eaks 7Smm T'Bone Steaks 95 xi' urn, Special - Thurs., Fri., & Sat. Only Klamath Fed UVWlVUIV UlaLI whole CUT - WRAPPED - QUICK FROZEN - FREE 47 BIG FAMILY ORDER 25 if. BEEF only s1298 was inclined to handle many rtrike negotiations personal ly, Wirtz is determined to delegate the peacemaker role to the agencies set up to per form it - the Federal Media tion Service and the Nation al Mediation Board. Will Not Forget "I won't soon forget," he said, "that during my first three weeks as a cabinet offi cer, I spent virtually all of my time working on the de tails of a single labor-management dispute." That was the Chicago and North Western railway strike. Wirtz inherited the settle ment negotiations when Gold berg was appointed to the Supreme Court and he moved up to the cabinet from under secretary of labor. Although his marathon la bors eventually produced a settlement, Wirlz emerged from the ordeal with a strong conviction that he should never again allow himself to become so deeply enmeshed with one problem that he has no time for anything else. "That's just not any way to run the Labor department," he said. Q. Regardless of who han dles the negotiations - the Secretary of Labor in person, : or his subordinates - do you think the government has been intervening in too many ' disputes? Did Not Imply A. No, I did not mean to imply that at all. I have no quarrel with the ba.sic policy 1 of vigorously representing the public interest in situa tions where it may be jeop ardized. I simply want to see to it that these cases slop at the Federal Mediation Serv ice or the National Mediation ; Board instead of coming right on into my office. '. Q. You don't think that ex cessive government interval- ; tion may be a danger to free collective bargaining? . A. Oil, sure, "excessive'' in tervention would certainly be a bad tiling, "'he question is, what is "excessive?" Federal mediators participate in only a relatively small percentage of the 100,000 collective bar gaining agreements negotiat ed in the United Slates each year. And I've discovered that a lot of people who protest in general about the govern ment getting involved in labor-management dispules sud denly become very insistent that we "do something" when a major strike takes place. Wirlz sal with his feel propped on the corner of his desk, hands clasped behind his head, and a massive briar pipe in hiq nioulli. At 50, he slill has the build (six feet one, lflll pounds) of a fool- 'I 1 a 1 t'ir. 1 1 1K WITHOUT A SIGNATURE WILL TAKE IT? nmp on tl tnpf- $c I'll. VVhpitipt it vp . . . 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'f,;-' . r i. k te - t v '. , iff KF T-V;; f Life' 5-4? vr -v. INFORMAL CHAT George Meany (right), president of the AFL-CIO, had informal chat recently with new Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz at Ihe labor department in Washington, D C. Wirtz intends to reduce ball player, which he was in college, 30 years ago. But the grey hairs will soon outnum ber the black ones on his close-cropped head. Was Law Partner Before coming lo Washing ton as Undersecretary of La bor at the start of ihe Ken nedy administration, Wirlz was a law partner of Adlai Stevenson in the Chicago firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirlz. He also served eight years as professor of law at Northwestern university. Since Wirtz had served for more than 18 months in the Labor department's number 2 job, union and industry leaders had plenty of oppor tunity to size him up before he moved up to the cabinet on Scat. 25. Their impression appears lo be almost univer sally favorable. Both groups respect his integrity, patience and intelligence. The Senate approved his nomination without even bothering to hold a public hearing. Q. What Is your stand on union demands for a 35-liour work week? A. I'm against 11. But 1 think everyone should recog nize that these demands were not put forward in any spirit of laziness. They represent a sincere effort to relieve un employment by spreading the available work to more peo ple. I oppose this proposal, because I don't think we can solve our problems by spread ing unricr-employment. The only real solution is to pro vide more jobs through eco nomic growth. Q. Are we making any progress toward reducing long-term, hard-core unem ployment? Situation Improved A. The situation has Im proved considerably during Ihe past 12 months we have 1,750,000 more jobs today than we had a year ago. Un employment has dropped from about fi 5 per cent of the labor force to about S.5 per cent. But we still have from three-and-a-half to four million people out of work, depending on the season, and that's far too many. Q. Are you satisfied with Ihe nation's present rale of economic growth? A. 1 certainly am not. i Q. What effect will the new ' Foreign Trade Act have on Hie jnh situation? Will a lot f of Americans he tliiown out of work by increased im ports' V The net effect of increas. e.1 world trade made posMble by this new law will be a sub stantial increase in Ihe num ber of jobs (or Americans. Ex panding eport industries will need hundreds of thousands of j additional workers in the next five years, liver the same pe-1 CHIP DIPPERS CRACKER SNACKERS AGREE r V i 1 M m m " cabinet-level intervention In laoor disputes, delegating negotiations to the federal media tion service and the national mediation board. (UPI photo) riod, we estimate that from 75,000 to 80,000 workers will be hit by imports. The trade act includes special provisions to assist them, including lib eral unemployment compen sation and relocation allow ances. Q. Can our high-wage econ omy compete with other in dustrial countries in a freer world market? Can Compete A. Certainly. It is already doing so. It is a fact that our largest volume of exports to day comes from industries with the highest wage scales. I'm confident that our pro duction efficiency will con tinue lo make us competitive, even with our higher wage scales. Wirlz has been married since 1936 to the former Mary Jane Quircnbcrry of St. Louis. They met while they were undergraduates at Be loil college. Beloit, Wis. They have two sons. Richard, 22, is a graduate student at Prince ton, and Philip, 13, is in Ihe eighth grade of a Washington public- school. They are an unusually close-knit family, and most of Wirtz' leisure ac tivities - bowling, lennii, golf and fishing are things he can share with his family. Mrs. Wirlz, who dazzled her husband wilh her beauty before he learned that she had Phi Beta Kappa grades, is accomplished at the old fashioned feminine art of sew ing, and is perhaps the only woman in the upper strata of Washington society who dares to make her own dresses for official occasions. Besides sports, Wirtz' hob bies include collecting three dimensional puzzles. He will patiently devote hours to find ing the clue to a particularly difficult puzzle. This habit may come in very handy if a particularly nasiy labor-management dis pute does land on his desk, in spile of all his good inten tions about keeping it on the "operating" level. Port Orford Firm Gets Overseas Order Washington -iUPD- An order for $5,304 worth of lumber sold overseas under the U. S. foreign aid program has been received by the F. S. P. Lum ber Co. of Port Orford, Ore. to please any cat all tuna liver 'n meat chicken fish meaty mix kidney 'n meat $ SO $ MMOUJ CUM t M.. ". " SNOW $ WNCID CUS ' t- c'.O"" Ch.. 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