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Willard Wirtz: Secretary of Labor (1965-12-12)
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A man highly experienced in labor-management matters, US Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz formerly served on the War Labor Board, as chairman of the National Wage Stabilization Board and as Under Secretary of Labor. His first assignment after being appointed Secretary of Labor in 1962 was to settle the Chicago and Northwestern Railway strike. In a speech that same year, Secretary Wirtz declared, Capitalism means, today, economic democracy, and the essential characteristic of democracy is voluntary respect for someone elses interests. In THE PRESIDENTS MEN, Secretary Wirtz talks with series commentator and Washington news correspondent Paul Niven about job discrimination against Negroes; compulsory arbitration versus collective bargaining; the Governments pilot project study of chronic unemployment, consisting of case-by-case studies; the Labor Department and Governments efforts to get unemployment below the 4 percent level; his views on the 35-hour week, double time and retirement; his personal advocacy of having students take two more years of schooling than required (either high school or college) in order to acquire more skills; what his hopes are for helping the educationall…
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National Educational Television and Radio Center
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, The President's Men
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