THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
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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.
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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.
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desk, hands clasped behind
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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
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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.
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