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President Lyndon B. Johnson, correspondence
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Suggest -- for actions that are in line with the noninflationary price-wage guideposts reaffirmed in the
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The concern that you voice and that I share, however,
is that we avoid increases in the price level, not just
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The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr.
President:
Wein the UAW
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in collective bargaining, it has long been our pecey to make progress
We have been
th the community and not at the expense of the coramunity.
guided by the sutaniohe that gains for our members should cor : out of the
productivity of our developing technology and not out of the pockets of consummers through higher prices.
of the fruits of technological
We have sought an equitable a
progress among consumers, workers and stockholders. We are fully in
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Council
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agreement with the principle expressed
in its 1964 Annual Report that:
rounds, for Alatributing above-average gains
We agree with the Counc il that price reduction is called for in such situations.
For aeieaaihae in 1957, looking ¢toward the teltowtns year's
UAW
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offered to confine our demands to what the automotive eorpeuntions
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could
pay after cutting prices an average of $100 per car, if they would put euch a
price decrease into effect.
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as of the beginning of 1963 «- more than twice the average rate of yearn of
ali U.S.
manufacturing corporations in 1963, which was a year of record
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The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson
1964
_ January 28,
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The Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson
January 28, 1964
Page 4
mount, $316 million, would have made it possible to
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reduce suhent ~t $200 enah on all 4,078, 000 cars sold by GM's U.S. plants
{ficient to give a wage anawense
wouee
cmtiwel
in the United
Our r wawked in 1963,
States
Taking into account excise taxes and the car dealers’ normal percentage mark-up, a $200 per car price cut would have come to approximately
$280 per car at retail -- a total of more than $1, 140, 000, 000 in savings to
American consumers.
These sehen would have ¢ equalled roughly 10 percent of the total
the pending tax reduction bill. They would
tax savings that will result from
have had the same kind of stimulating effect on the economy as a tax cut of
equal size.
Since GM is the price leader in the auto industry, the other auto
corporations would match any price cut that GM put inte effect. If GM had
reduced prices only $100 per car at the wholesale level -- equal
to $140 at
retail -- savings to consumers on all 7, 637, 000 cars produced by the U.S.
auto industry last year would have amounted to $1, 069, 000, 600.
consumers
and workers.
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steckholders
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that equity is A sheen 3 matter.
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President
ON, UAW
MEMORANDUM ~- JANUARY 1964
From:
Walter P. Reuther
1964 confronts America with complex and compelling challenges
and bright new opportunities both at home
and in the world.
economy is freedom's greatest material asset.
The American
The harnessing of America's
unused economic potential and the fullest development of our human and material
resources are the key to our ability to meet these challenges and bring to practical
fulfillment these promising opportunities.
AT HOME
i.
~- Needed:
An economy of opportunity.
Getting America back to work remains the number one priority
on the home front.
We need a total effort to harness the economic abundance
made possible by automation and our developing technology to the unmet needs
of the American people.
To date, we have failed to fully comprehend the dimensions of
the problem and the sweep of the opportunities with which the technological
revolution confronts us.
We have mastered the tools and the techniques for
creating economic abundance.
We must now learn to manage this economic
abundance by relating it to the total needs of the whole people and the nation.
The equitable distribution among
workers,
farmers,
consumers
and investors
of the increasing wealth and abundance that our developing technology makes
possible,
is more
than a matter of economic
justice; it is a matter of economic
necessity if we are to achieve the dynamic balance essential to growth and
expansion.
Memorandum ~- January 1964
Page Z.
Nothing less than a total effort to get America back to work
will provide the leverage needed to deal effectively with the pockets of poverty
which commits millions of American families to second class economic
citizenship,
living in the sub-basement of our generally affluent society.
We Need a Total Effort
To improve the quality of our society;
To wipe out the serious deficits in our society;
Teo eliminate the tragic and cruel disadvantages which
penalize millions of Americans;
and
To effectively implement the Employment Act of 1946 to
achieve its economic and social purposes of maximum
employment,
production and purchasing power.
We Need a Total Effort to Create an Economy
to provide:
of Opportunity
A job for every citizen able and willing to work;
An education for every child and youth to assure maximum
growth and development;
Security and dignity for every aged citizen when he is too
old to work and too young to die;
Adequate health care for every citizen, old and young,
removing the economic barriers to good health;
by
Equal rights and first class economic citizenship for every
American, regardless of race, creed, or color; and
A decent home in a wholesome neighborhood for every American
farnily.
2.
Establish a Presidential
Commission
on Automation or A
House to explore means for achieving a rational and
responsible approach to the problems of automation and the accelerating
technological revolution.
Memorandum
Page 3.
- January 1964
An economy of opportunity requires foresight and foreknowledge
for we cannot meet the complex problems of the 20th century technology by
flying blindly into the future.
opportunity and encouragement,
(programming
While providing private incentive with every
we need to recognize that public
for people) can and must be made
planning
compatible with private
planning for profit.
IN THE
WORLD
i.
i
nt
co
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ac
pe
g
in
st
la
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d
an
st
ju
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r
The quest fo
of the highest priority.
266
af
a matter
America must remain firm in its determination to
defend our nation and the free world and the values of our free society.
the same time,
At
it must demonstrate the will and the flexibility to explore every
possible avenue to achieve a reduction in international tension,
looking towards
rational and effective disarmament in a world ruled by law rather than force.
The Test Ban Agreement must be followed by other practical steps on the long
road to building a just and lasting peace.
2.
Narrowing the gap between the have and the have-net
peoples and
d
e
an
ac
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pe
r
fo
nc
t
ge
es
ur
gh
hi
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th
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of
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on
of
ti
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.
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vi
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ha
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do
ca
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fr
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sta
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liv
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the
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to
s
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nat
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rgi
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the
of
s
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peo
Helping the have-not
c
ati
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dem
find
to
are
ple
peo
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thes
of
ial
ent
ess
is
e
eas
dis
and
nce
and to fight ignora
solutions to their desperate human
problems.
We must answer the propaganda
of the Comrnunists by the propaganda of the democratic deed.
We can prove
Memorandum
~- January 1964
Page 4.
that the world we are committed to build with men of good-will everywhere will
make it possible for people to get food in their st omachs without putting their
souls in chains.
By bold and affirmative action, we must prove that bread
and freedom are compatible and that all mankind
3.
may share in their blessings.
We must strengthen the Free World Alliance into a positive
force for peace.
The Free World Alliance came together essentially out of
negative defensive reasons.
It must be given a new sense of historic purpose.
It must be united not by common fears and common hatreds,
common hopes,
common faith and common
ignorance and disease,
and injustice,
but rather by
aspirations for winning the peace.
for this is the only war that can be won.
PROPOSAL TO REDUCE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS DEF!
STUDEBAKER
DISPLACED
FOR
EMPLOYMENT
TO PROVIDE
BY PRODUCTION OF AN ALL-AMERICAN SMALL CAR
o
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u
a
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th
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th
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ive assembly corporations (General Motow, _ Ford,
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Chrysler,
American
and Willys
Motors
talent and their preductive resources,
and,
together with their suppliers,
Motors)
be persuaded to pool their engineering
by creating a joint-venture corporation,
to design
to manufacture the parts and componen ‘se for an
The car would be assembled in the South Bend facilities of
All-American small car.
it would be sold and serviced by the dealerships of all the
the Studebaker Corporation;
participating companie
Effectuation of this proposal would provide jobs for the displaced Studebaker
and transportation industries,
k
ies
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supplying,
raw materials
and would make a significant cuntetbuilien te correction
nce
ef the U. S. bala
of payments
deficit.
The United States balance of payments suffers severely from failure of the
nation's automobile industry toe produce a small car to compete for the U.S.
markets.
and world
Demand for small cars in the American market is being filled entirely by
overseas producers.
ments deficit.
In 1962, the dollar volume of imports of automobiles and parts --
Meanwhile,
the U.S.
has lost its position in the export market where
small cars are in great demand.
The introduction of compact cars has only partially solved the problem.
1961.
in 0
1959 to 279, 00
in 0
ports of new cars declined from 668, 90
imports rose to 339,009;
Ime-
In 1962, however,
1963 will probably show a rise of an additional 15 percent;
and further increases are expected in 1964.
Imports of the Volkswagen,
which is in
a size and price class for which there is no direct U.S. -made competition, have risen
steadily despite the
introduction of the compacts
imately 250,000 in 1963.
-- from 120, 900 in 1959 to approx-
The head of Volkswagen's U.S.
predicts a further substantial increase in 1964.
distribution organization
American-made compacts have not
become a significant factor in the world car market.
—
The effect on the U.S.
is only partially indicated by the
balance of payments
facts that U.S. imports of new automobiles and parts, concentrated overwhelmingly
in the small car field, were valued at $563.5 million in 1962 and were approximately
15 ueen higher in 1963.
The balance of payments suffers also from the fact that,
te in the small car field, the
U.S.
1 1948-51,
share of world car «
inclusive,
to 4.7 percent in 1962.
The failure of the American automobil
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produce a small car was
by Mr. Henry Ford Il in a recent interview in which he said:
explained
tt
eer
cars _ae
wad probably
Meters would oo tn,
ee
arysl r, ont ty te
te
we start divvying
up what is left in a markofet
this size,
there's nothing there."
The creation of a joint-venture corporation involving all U.S. car producers would
overcome the obstacle presented by the limited size of the U.S. small car market.
The abandonment
by Stude!
ny ae
aD
i
Syne
n United States provides
in the
ker of car productio
c lities that can and should be used for assembly and
avoid hardship for displaced Studebaker workers,
the South Bend area, and to make a
substantial
The proposal is more fully explained in the
randum.
1/4/64
to restore the economic base of
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ution to reduction of the balance
at che
l,
ic base of the South Bend area.
restore the econc
2.
It would make a major contribution to correction of the U. S. balance of
payments deficit by:
(a)
creating a car that could compete
domestic
(b)
automobile market now served
regaining for the U.S.
effectively in a layer of the
entirely by |
automobile industry a part of its lost
share in the export market.
3.
It would tap a new layer of the car market through cost savings which,
reflected in prices,
if
would make new car purchases possible for families whose
incomes do not permit them to pay even for imported small cars.
tunities for American workers
4.
at a time when unemployment
persists
at
intolerably
high levels.
Job opportunities
the
in
with
also
but
ers
work
er
ebak
Stud
d
lace
disp
the
for
would be created not only
remaining car assembly corporations,
in the establishments of their suppliers both
within the automobile industry and in other industries such as steel,
textiles,
rubber,
etc., as well as in the transportation of materials and parts.
glass,
se
It would widen the choice available to American consumers
5.
price field that many,
in a size and
have
through their volume purchases of imported small cars,
derr onstrated to be the field of their preference.
POSSIBLE METHOD
OF OPERATION
It is not proposed in this memorandum to blueprint the structure and method
of operation of the proposed joint-venture corporation.
be worked out by the participating companies.
The details would have to
The following ideas,
however,
may
be useful in evaluating the possibilities and advantages of the proposal:
The participating companies could have equal shares in the stock of the
a
joint-venture corporation.
This would make it impossible for any single partici-
of
e
rrenc
concu
the
since
n
ratio
corpo
ure
-vent
joint
the
ate
domin
to
ny
compa
pating
three of the five participants would be necessary for a majority.
Very little capital would be required,
2.
involves the use to the maximum
manufacture and assemble,
since the essence of the proposal
extent possible of existing plant and equipment to
and of existing dealer facilities to distribute and
car.
service,
the All-American
3.
and
g
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sty
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of
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an
mp
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Each participating
engineering staff to the joint-venture corporation to develop the All-American
car.
Their knowledge of the parts and components already being made by their
ign
des
to
m
the
ble
ena
ld
wou
ers
pli
sup
nt
nde
epe
ind
r
thei
and
ies
pan
com
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tiv
pec
res
a car which would be composed to the maximum
components.
extent possible of such parts and
ate
4.
m
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Where two or more
make parts or components
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5.
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already being made,
to the maximum
degree possible,
upon parte and components
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prices only slightly in excess of
supplies and labor since,
of
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with overhead
the parts and components involved,
the entire margin over out-of-pocket costs
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it
of
would be a net addition to pr
the participants in the joint-venture corporation,
supplied by
they would share in the profits of
the joint-venture corporation as such.
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mi
om
bc
su
ate
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a
of
The staff
.
car
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ad
-m
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e
ag
er
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the
of
t
cos
the
to
0
$20
ut
abo
s
annual model change add
.
et
rk
ma
r
ca
l
al
sm
the
in
y
ar
ss
ce
ne
not
e
ar
s
ge
Volkswagen has proved that model chan
7.
s
an
tr
h
hig
the
h
wit
ed
en
rd
bu
be
not
d
ul
wo
car
ll
The All-American sma
.
U.S
the
in
ed
lud
inc
be
st
mu
ch
whi
ts
cos
portation
prices of imported small cars.
.
U.S
a
to
y
an
rm
Ge
om
fr
en
ag
sw
lk
Vo
a
ng
ppi
shi
for
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The usual rat
port is said to be $148.08.
North Atlantic
s
an
tr
of
t
un
st
co
co
ac
e
th
ke
ta
ef
t
no
es
do
re
This figu
t.
exi
of
rt
po
an
rm
Ge
the
to
t
an
pl
en
ag
sw
portation from the Volk
ii.
make for further cost savings.
Those facilities are
.
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rs
ca
re
mo
or
0
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5,
22
of
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in the neighborho
mand for
m
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l
b
a
l
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probably ava
them.
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t,
an
pl
er
ak
eb
ud
St
e
th
in
d
le
al
st
in
y
tl
en
es
equipment pr
probably could be used to make some
lAl
the
r
fo
ts
en
on
mp
co
d
an
s
rt
pa
e
th
of
.
es
ic
pr
le
sa
ss
re
st
di
at
le
ab
in
ta
ob
be
w
no
ld
shou
American car,
9.
which
an
ic
er
Am
lAl
e
th
e
ic
rv
se
d
an
ll
se
to
ts
en
Use of existing dealer establishm
small car would keep selling costs ata
In addition,
minimum.
s;
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rk
ma
r
ei
th
ng
ni
de
oa
br
by
y
ll
ia
the dealers financ
it would strengthen
and it would insure vigorous
t.
fi
ne
be
d
ul
wo
s
er
um
ns
co
h
ic
wh
om
fr
s
competition for sale
It would also make
an
ic
er
Am
lAl
e
th
ve
gi
d
ul
wo
h
ic
wh
es
ti
li
ci
fa
e
ic
rv
se
of
ty
li
bi
la
ai
av
ad
re
sp
de
for wi
car a substantial market
10.
‘e@ over imports.
ad
s
ng
vi
sa
st
co
e
th
e
ev
hi
ac
to
n
io
at
or
The ability of the joint-venture corp
gh
ou
en
w
lo
r
ca
an
ic
er
Am
lAl
e
th
of
e
ic
pr
noted above would enable it to keep the
to compete with
m
s
p
o
r
t
e
d
s
mall cars, and to enlarge
ir
t
ns
ai
ag
s
es
en
iv
ct
wlo
of
s
ed
ne
the
-et
rk
ma
e
th
of
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ye
la
w
ne
a
g
in
pp
ta
by
s
le
sa
r
ca
ic
st
me
do
l
tota
h
ac
re
r
ei
th
nd
yo
be
rs
ca
l
al
sm
ed
rt
po
im
en
ev
nd
fi
y
tl
en
es
pr
o
wh
es
income famili
financially.
n,
io
pt
ce
ex
e
th
h
it
(w
s
ng
vi
sa
e
Thes
in some markets,
of transportation
e
ar
sh
e
th
of
rt
pa
in
ga
re
te
on
ti
si
po
a
in
s
er
uc
od
pr
an
ic
er
Am
t
pu
so
costs) would al
of the world market that the U.5.
auto industry has lost.
a Be
U.S. AUTO COMPANIES HAVE SMALL CAR CAPABILITY
U.S.
t they have the technical and
auto corporations have dem
ll
sma
t
ins
aga
ely
ctiv
effe
e
pet
com
to
ed
uir
req
y
lit
abi
cap
and
dge
wle
kno
n
productio
cars of the types now being imported into the United States,
The recently introduced GM
and experted in large volume to third markets.
Kadett and Ford Taunus
12M,
sold throughout Europe,
both produced in Germany,
already have been hugely
s.
und
gro
e
hom
its
on
n
age
ksw
Vol
h
wit
ing
pet
com
in
l
sfu
succes
Forbes magazine,
Opel
According to
during the first eight months of 1963, the Kadett had 15.5 percent
of the small car market in Germany,
the Taunus
12M had 18.0 percent,
and
Volkswagen's share had fallen to 42.0 percent from 72.8 percent in 1961.
its
m
fro
tes
Sta
ted
Uni
the
o
int
ett
Kad
the
ort
imp
to
ng
rti
sta
now
GM is
German plants.
But such imports do not help ~- in fact,
They do not improve the U.S.
major purposes of this proposal.
and could,
in fact, worsen it.
they go counter to -- the
balance of payments
They do not add to and might actually subtract from
employment opportunities for U.S.
They provide no help whatsoever
workers.
.
ea
ar
nd
Be
h
ut
So
the
d
an
s
er
rk
wo
er
ak
eb
ud
St
d
ce
la
to the disp
ANTITRUST CONSIDERATIONS |
on.
ati
isl
leg
ust
itr
ant
of
ent
int
the
h
wit
ct
fli
con
in
not
is
The proposal
It
e
er
wh
ld
fie
y
an
in
n
io
it
et
mp
co
on
ns
io
ct
ri
st
dees not involve the elimination of or re
Sento
ly
like
are
or
e
pet
com
now
on
ati
por
cor
ure
ent
r
t-v
joi
e
th
in
ts
an
ip
ic
rt
the potential pa
to compete in the future.
On the contrary,
it envisions the intensification of
d
u
c
t
i
e
o
tr
n
in
of
e
a
th
n
e
h
w
g
u
o
c
r
o
h
m
t
p
e
y
t
r
i
t
t
s
o
u
r
d
,
n
i
o
t
u
a
e
th
in
n
o
i
t
i
t
e
comp
joint-venture corporation,
the
e
c
n
a
n
s
i
'
m
n
o
e
d
g
a
w
s
k
l
o
e
V
r
e
h
d
w
el
fi
r
l
ca
l
into the sma
is today approaching monopolistic proportions.
If authoritative legal analysis of
abe
existing antitrust legislation,
aevertheless, should leave no alternative but to hold
that the proposed joint-venture corporatic
| would be in conflict with such legislation
this obstacie could be overcome by introduction in Congress of carefully safe-
guarded legislation to permit formation of the proposed joint-venture corporation.
The purposes of the proposal listed above are of sufficient national importance to
support the hope that Congress would act promptly and favorably upon such
legislation.
1/4/64
PUBLIC REINSURANCE OF PRIVATE PENSION
of the older workers
The plight
displaced by the Studebaker Corporation
dramatizes the urgent need to enact legislation which would provide public
reinsurance for private pension plans.
There are approxim
tely 4,400 Studebaker workers aged 40 through
59 and with at least 10 years' service with the company.
All these workers
have so-called "vested rights" -- the irrevocable right to draw pensions when
they reach retirement age,
will not be available after provision is made for payment of :
60 years of age or older.
to those
Some of those who will receive no pensions despite
their vested rights have 49 years or more of service with the company.
Similar tragedies have occurred in hundreds of smaller corporations
which
r
i
e
h
t
d
close
doors
wit
e
d
l
o
d
e
c
a
l
p
s
i
d
o
t
meet obligations
ace in its report submitted on December 24,
"This Committee also agrees [ with the Cabinet Committee
established by President Kennedy| that a proposal to
establish some type of reinsurance arrangement, which
eee in the event of
eS pa
would assure Pe
a plan's termination, deserves serious study as one
means of avelding the consequences that befall employees
when a plan terminates as a result of business failure."
~“@e
on
ati
isl
leg
the
to
ous
log
ana
be
ld
wou
on
ati
isl
leg
ce
ran
nsu
rei
n
Pensio
creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Gennes.
niin
policy requires a
In both cases,
wea
In fact,
guarantee of private promises to pay.
the need may even be greater in the pension field where,
by 1980,
public
private
,
who
ees
loy
emp
n
lio
mil
42
e
som
er
cov
to
ed
ect
exp
plans are
their pensions become payable,
when
will be at an age where earning power is
nonexistent or drastically reduced.
The difficulty in Studebaker,
tragic experience,
as in the other companies with similar
is that the pension plan had not been in existence long
es
iti
bil
lia
the
ly
ial
ent
ess
-es"
iti
bil
lia
e
vic
ser
st
enough to fully fund “pa
for
d
he
is
bl
ta
es
s
wa
an
pl
n
io
ns
pe
the
me
ti
the
at
d
create
by the workers in prior years.
pension credit earned
These liabilities are generally funded, when
s.
ar
ye
40
to
up
g
in
nn
ru
s
od
ri
pe
ed
nd
te
ex
er
ov
,
they are funded at all
ntial
protection could be provided for a small reinsurance
da to be paid inte a federal pension reinsurance
ring
through reinsurance,
but,
as in the case of the premiums
s.
st
co
e
th
gh
ei
tw
ou
r
fa
d
ul
wo
s
in
the ga
1/4/64
lais
it
for the tax benefav
paid te the FDIC,
\
iy
ox
mt
W Ni,
Details re:
l-
On the domestic economic
scene,
the goalie of the Administration can
perhaps best be summed up in the phrase “an economy of
0]
utions can help to create in the age of auto-
3.
Above all,
achi
ofe
an v
econ
e
omm
y of
e
opn
port
t
unity requires
rededication to the objectives of the Employment Act of 1946 «« to ‘maximum
hmac
the
of
nt
eme
rov
imp
and
-er"
pow
g
sin
cha
pur
and
n
tio
duc
pro
t,
men
loy
emp
inery for attainment of those objectives.
We must have machinery to enlist all
economic interest groups in a cooperative effort systematically to evaluate the
nation's resources and its needs and to develop a consensus aa to priorities in
applying our resources
to meet our needs.
This is the essence of the democratic
national economic planning (or ‘programming'') that has preved so successful in
Western Europe.
must be made a major industry and given
unfinished business.
6.
means
tunitv y
om
of oppor
For the old, an econ
|
e
mak
to
ped
hel
e
hav
rts
effo
me
eti
lif
r
thei
ch
whi
nce
nda
abu
the
in
ly
fair
re
to sha
ty,
uri
Sec
al
Soci
er
und
e
car
lth
hea
ns,
sio
pen
ty
uri
Sec
al
Soci
sed
rea
inc
-possible
ce of private pension
plan .
It means also specially designed
be
readily
can
who
age
ent
m
ire
ret
w
lo
be
ll
sti
se
tho
for
ms
ra
og
pr
retraining
uate pensions for those who cannot be so trai
nt
adeq
onme
retire
on
ti
ca
u
ed
g,
in
us
ho
,
bs
jo
to
ss
ce
ac
l
ua
eq
not only removal of all barriers to
atioas
open to other citizens. It also
means special aid to overcome the handicaps and disadvantages imposed by
employment service
equipped with the power to require
employers to list job vacancies and an Executive
Orde
requiring such listing by government contractors pend-
ing enactment of legislat:
universal,
«tes
#
adequate subsistence allowances for workers under-
taking retraining,
#
relocation aid where it is impossible to provide suitable
jobs in the workers’
#
home
communities,
active encouragement to labor and management
to
develop through collective bargaining sound and effective
means
to minimize hardships and dislocations
result-
ing from technological change and to facilitate adjustment
to it.
Pending the time when full employment can be provided through increased
public and private demand,
additional job opportunities should be opened up for
the unemployed by:
#
deterring avoidable overtime through a doubling of
workweek based upon the state of the labor market.
10.
y
it
un
rt
po
op
of
y
om
on
ec
an
as
are
d
se
es
pr
de
of
ple
peo
For the
and their family ties.
for this purpose,
ed
ed
ne
is
ing
anc
fin
t
en
pm
lo
ve
de
Re
ea
Ar
us
ro
ne
ge
More
but that alone is net enough.
Legislation is needed,
similar
a
te that in effectin Europe,
under which the
ne
iroth
sense of directfo
ge
|
acts can contrit
ll.
An ecor
e to relief of area distress.
r
i
u
q
e
r
y
3
foresight
and
foreknowledge.
t
i
n
u
t
r
o
p
p
o
omy of
We cannot attain it by flying blind into the future.
Automation Commission
or a Technological
l
a
i
t
e
n
r
e
o
d
f
i
e
s
d
r
e
e
e
r
ne a P
We th
Clearing
House which will arnass
eut bill will help to increase employment, but will net for some years reduce
‘ls.
Neither will other presently foreseeable
agement must cooperate to supplemeat |
i
r
P
.
y
t
i
v
i
t
c
u
d
o
r
p
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beh
sourc
e
h
t
o
t
y
g
o
l
o
n
h
c
e
t
g
n
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p
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l
e
v
e
d
r
u
o
d
n
a
n
o
i
t
a
m
o
t
u
a
y
b
e
l
b
i
s
pos
unmet
the American people.
e
th
of
s
n
o
i
s
n
e
m
i
d
e
th
d
n
e
h
e
r
p
m
o
c
y
ll
fu
to
ed
il
fa
e
We hav
g
n
i
t
n
o
r
f
n
o
c
n
o
i
t
u
l
o
v
e
r
l
a
c
technologi
.
e
l
b
i
s
s
o
p
s
e
k
which it ma
u
e
t
s
a
m
e
v
a
h
We
c
i
m
o
n
o
c
e
s
i
h
e
t
g
a
n
a
m
o
n
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r
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l
w
o
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t
s
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m
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w
e
d
n
c
a
n
a
d
n
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c
b
i
a
m
o
n
o
g
c
n
e
creati
.
n
o
i
t
a
n
e
h
t
d
n
e
a
l
p
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p
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l
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w
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o
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a
t
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t
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c
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abundan
,
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e
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g
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m
a
n
o
i
t
The equitable distribu
farmers,
consumers and investors
m
u
m
i
x
a
m
e
r
u
s
s
a
to
h
ut
yo
d
an
An education for every child
growth and development;
o
to
is
he
en
wh
n
ze
ti
ci
ed
ag
y
Security and dignity for ever
e;
di
to
g
un
yo
o
to
d
an
old to work
Page
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g,
un
yo
d
an
old
n,
ize
cit
y
er
ev
for
re
ca
th
al
he
te
Adequa
by removing
the economic
barriers
to good health;
r
fo
p
hi
ns
ze
ti
ci
c
i
m
o
n
o
c
e
Equal rights and first class
every American,
regardless of race,
creed,
or color; and
y
er
ev
r
fo
od
ho
or
hb
ig
ne
e
om
es
ol
wh
a
in
A decent home
American family.
y
it
un
rt
po
op
e
th
e
id
ov
pr
to
is
The objective of such an economy
for all Americans
the impoverished,
-- the vouna,
the old,
the unemployed,
the members
the unde remployed,
,
ly
ve
ti
uc
tr
ns
co
te
bu
ri
nt
co
to
-s
ea
ar
depressed
respective capacities,
of minority groups,
the people living in
to the maximum of their
y
bl
ta
ui
eq
e
ar
sh
to
d
an
on
ti
na
e
th
of
ss
re
to the prog
of
e
ag
e
th
in
te
ea
cr
to
lp
he
n
ca
s
in the abundance which their contribution
automation.
es
ir
qu
re
y
it
un
rt
po
op
of
y
om
on
ec
an
of
t
The achievemen
um
im
ax
"m
to
-46
19
of
t
Ac
nt
me
oy
pl
Em
e
th
rededication to the objectives of
employment,
production and purchasing power"
.
es
iv
ct
je
ob
e
os
th
of
nt
me
in
ta
at
r
fo
y
er
machin
-- and improvement of the
We must have the machinery
e
iv
at
er
op
co
a
in
ps
ou
gr
st
re
te
in
ic
om
on
ec
and create the climate to enlist all
to
d
an
s
ed
ne
s
it
d
on
s
ce
ur
so
re
's
on
ti
na
effort systematically to evaluate the
r
ou
et
me
to
s
ce
ur
so
re
r
ou
ng
yi
pl
ap
in
es
develop a consensus as to prioriti
needs.
ng
ni
an
pl
ic
om
on
ec
al
on
ti
na
ic
at
cr
mo
This is the essence of the de
(or "programming")
th
wi
pe
ro
Eu
rn
te
es
Ww
rm
ul
sf
es
cc
su
so
ed
that has prov
our help through the Marshall Plan.
will amass
l
ra
nt
ce
e
on
at
es
nc
va
ad
l
ca
gi
lo
no
ch
information on impending te
te
ua
eq
ad
at
th
so
ct
pa
im
ng
hi
ac
re
rfa
r
ei
th
te
ua
al
ev
d
an
e
yz
al
an
ll
wi
d
point, an
s
ge
an
ch
ch
su
ts
ef
fi
ne
be
e
th
at
th
re
su
as
to
me
ti
in
d
te
ua
ct
fe
ef
be
n
ca
s
e
r
u
meas
and
will be fully SuneNe
dangers and dislocations avoided.
iative with every opportunity and
,
n
ma
hu
r
ou
e
ov
pr
im
to
os
cm
l
ia
ec
sp
ion we need to take
resources,
to assist the disadvantaged,
and to facilitate adjustment
|
,
al
du
vi
di
in
ch
ea
s
le
ab
en
at
th
em
syst
to his fullest capacity.
secondary sc
of
»d with rapid technological
p
lo
ve
de
to
r,
lo
co
or
ce
ra
of
ss
le
regard
Federal aid is
d
an
y
ar
im
pr
r
ou
e
ov
pr
im
to
ed
ed
ne
to
rs
ie
rr
ba
l
ia
nc
na
fi
ve
mo
re
to
e,
rat
wools, to reduce the drop-o ati
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have helped to make possible -- increased Social Security pensions,
care under Social Security,
health
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retirement age who can readily be
in their home communities,
trained for and placed in suitable jobs
and early retirement on adequate pensions for
those who cannot be so trained! and placed.
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of minority groups
--- an economy of opportunity
means the removal of all barriers to equal access to jobs,
the ballot box,
housing,
education,
public facilities, and accommodations open to other citizens.
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by centuries of involuntary servitude,
all, it means enough jobs,
segregation and discrimination.
enough housing,
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enough classrooms to avoid conflicts
between minorities and majorities over the division of scarcity.
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massive national effort to provide a better life for America's submerged third,
to improve their capacity and their desire to help themselves,
opportunities to make use of their capacities.
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WASHINGTON
January
Dear
16,
1964
Walter:
Your warm telegram commending my State
of the Union message was most welcome.
It
means much to me that I have struck a
responsive chord in you and it is strengthening
to know that you and other friends are with me
in these crucial hours.
Sincerel
Mr. Walter P. Reuther
President
International Union, United Automobile,
Aerospace and Agricultural Implement
Workers, AFL-CIO
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Milwaukee
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congratulations
press
handling
of your
answers
to questions
of American
people
search for peace,
Kindest
personal
1964
Johnson
President Lyndon B.
The White House
Washington, D. C.
My warmest
29,
February
STRAIGHT WIRE
(sent by WPR from home)
on your
Confident
conference.
will further
in your
freedom
and straight forward
competent
reinforce
your
and
clear
strengthen
and direct
confidence
deep
commitment
and justice for all people
everywhere.
leadership
and your
regards.
Walter
P.
Reuther
in
March 19, 1964
STRAIGHT WIRE
President Lyndon B. Johnson
The White House
Washington, D. C.
My heartiest congratulations on your historic and challenging call
for America to wage total all-out war against poverty in a nation
that has the tools,
the know-how and the capacity to create plenty
for ali of its people.
less fortunate
Your deep compassion and concern for the
should awaken America
from
its slumbering
morality and arouse us from our indifference and provide renewed
strength for our nation in getting this job done.
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share more fully of the fruits of automation and our developing
technology.
We join with you and we are proud to work with you to the
end that every A merican child can have access
his
maxir
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facilitate
to
opportunities
to educational
growth and development -~-
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Straight Wire to President Lyndon B. Johnson
rewarding job to provide for his family and to share the dignity,
self-
respect and the pride that he will earn in helping to contribute to the
over-all well-being of our free society.
uder-in-Chief, you can count on us as yous lead America
inte battle against poverty
and want.
Kindest regards.
Walter
W PR:iob
P.
Reuther
STRAIGHT
Johnson
President Lyndon B.
The White House
Washington, D. C.
leadership
necessary
power
and is a further
to reduce
and
congratulations
heartiest
My
for your
1964
21,
April
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world tension while maintaining
Your
latest effort is an act of courage
historic
step in the long road we must
and wisdom
determination to defend our nation’s
Your
dedication to search for peace
international understanding
offers
concern
youth,
to the people
for the needs
detractors
for the under-privileged have
leadership
strated that we must
My heartiest
historic
congratulations
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for the unemployed
P.
at home,
aside your few
above
and partianship
in the image
demon-~
of our
and best wishes
and progress
common
yours,
Reuther,
International
Union,
President
UAW
on
for people.
regards,
Sincerely
Walter
jobs
fears,
common
personal
and
education for our
again dramatically
step on the road to peace
Kindest
WPR:ob
principle
and vision have
by our
compassion
given new hope
people will brush
act to fashion the future
faith and not be governed
another
citizens,
who would place party before
Your
for
people,
of the American
and
for the future and will
of the world just as your
The American
people.
bright promise
security and dignity for our older
and opportunity
to build a
travel
security paralleled by your
give new hope
all
security.
to defend our nation's
just and enduring peace.
appreciation
sincere
HOUSE
WHITE
THE
WASHINGTON
April
1964
25,
Dear
Walter:
I was
cheered very much for your
warm
friendly telegram.
and
I am trying to be the President of all the people
in this land. Iam trying to help everyone who
is a citizen of this country build for himself and
his family a better life, a more decent life, and
a life that has within it opportunity that is availThe leadership and the statesmanship
able toall.
that you exhibit is the kind of invaluable assistance
that I need to help bring these good things to all
Americans.
Sincerely,
yh
Mr.
Walter
P.
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The White House
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Heartiest congratulations on your magnificent state of the union
message.
Your
call for a total war against human poverty to
provide opportunity and hope for all Americans will awaken the
conscience
of America,
and I am
confident that America will
respond to your courageous leadership and compassionate heart.
You can count upon my fullest support and cooperation in your
crusade for a world of peace and plenty for people.
Walter
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P.
Reuther
Best wishes.
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following
promptly
the
statement
legislation
was
he
issued
today
proposed.
by UAW
President
Walter
P,
Reuther:
June 26,
President Lyndon B.
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear
Mr.
1964
Johnson
President:
This
is a report from
one of your loyal soldiers in the
unconditional war against poverty to which you have summoned
America,
On March 19,
1964,
On March 23,
1904, you addressed the delegates to the
I wired you, Mr.
President,
and
advised you that the officers and the one and one-half million members of the UAW were enlisting for the duration of the war against
poverty.
UAW Convention in Aflantic City, and your deep human commitment
and compassion inspired all of us to greater effort in strengthening
you and supporting you as you lead America in the task of building
ae great society.
On the day following your address, the 3,000 UAW
delegates, with your words still ringing in their ears and their
haat S, unanimously adopted the enclosed comprehensive program
to help you implement your war against poverty through a broad ©
citizens crusade against poverty.
On April 2, 1964, the International Executive Board of
the UAW, responding to my call, appropriated $100, 000 as seed
money to organize the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty and appro_ priated an additional $1 million to provide part of the operating
budget to carry on the work of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty.
President
Lyndon
B.
June
wLe
Johnson
26,
1964
On April 17, 1964, I wrete approximately 500 leaders of
civil rights, civic, education, industry, labor, farm, women
church,
and youth organizations soliciting their participation in launching 4
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty and asked them to join together in
providing the citizens army needed to effectively carry on your
unconditional war against poverty.
lam happy to report,
Mr.
that the response
President,
from every section of the nation and from all groups and organizations
ng that universally they pledged enthusiastic support.
was overwhelmiand
You will be glad to know that on Wednesday, June 24th, in response to
my invitation, the first preliminary conference of the Citizens Crusade
Against Poverty was held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington,
More than 150 leaders from 125 organizations,
civil rights,
participated.
education,
farm,
labor,
civic,
including church,
social welfare,
C.
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youth,
etc.,
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groups and organigations whe made up the National Coalition of Conbut
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spir t of the mecting was
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and by unanimous action, a broadly representative preparatory program
This preparatory committee will
and policy committee was created.
mect in the weeks ahead and report back to a broadly based conference
of national organizations immediately following Labor Day, at which
time we shall “formalize the creation of a Citizens Crusade Against
Poverty.
We shall be working
assure
maximum
cooperation dnd
closely with Mr.
Sargent Shriver to
coordination in our
common
effort
and we shall make every effort in supporting you in securing favorable
action from
Congress
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June 26,
1964
America has the resources to abolish poverty.
We have
the technical know-how and the productive capability. Under your
inspired leadership America will demonstrate the will needed to
abolish poverty to the end that every American family may share in
the blessings of the great society.
With apprecietion and admiration for your leadership,
am with kindest personal regards
Sincerely yours,
&
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Walter
P.
Reuther,
INTERNATIONAL UNION,
President
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To the
Despite
| work
of
of
a shortage
degree
a high
and
growth
of our people,
great majority
is a shortage
we have
been
of
falling
respects.
in major
jobs.
of quality
education
and training
for modern
skills.
and
and managerial
together
potential
in key professional,
translated
warn
of
further
into
troubles
our Freres
tomorrow
if
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today.
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have
It is time
is necessary.
different
manpower
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Actions
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that we recognize
supply
actions,
the
unemployment,
better the
but much more
interrelatedness
additional
measures
needed,
and weave
an active
manpower
policy,
a policy
a coordinated whole.
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recognizes
a
for bringing
of nipeiigiout
a shortage
is
unemployment--and
into
of means
shortage
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jobseekers.
effectively
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be met
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science
draw
and
to realize
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measures
on manpower,
other
all
laying
policies
basic
our human
proceed both
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resource
with measures
a base
social welfare,
education,
in a coordinated way
potential,
for
for prevention
are
and
immediate
of
if we
future
effect
and
—
difficulties.
Stand
We
Where
past
year was
one
of excellent
income,
profits,
and
employment
The
output,
national
gross
$600 billion.
more
was
Average
factory pay for those employed rose to over
reduced
unemployment.
matched
by
our human
are
advances
required
is
to keep
our
transformations
in tandem,
necessarily
longer
resource
on human
with
pace
But
advances
utilization
overall
in
wealth.
despite our fine a rovth : xchtereabat » unemployment
For in 1963,
at high levels,
It persisted grimly,
did not decline.
no
are
the two
that
attention
specific
and that
if
indicate
economy
in the
closely
economy was
front.
unemployment
on the
have
ordinarily
would
advance
general
in the
Advance
improvement
70 million.
nearly
economic
such
years,
wariie
In
average
increased by
Employment
rose very substantially.
to
a million
than
nnucetse
today
product
Profits
$100 a week.
The
heights.
and
$30 billion
by
increased
record
reached
National
growth.
economic
and inciting
inflicting economic loss on the nation,
individuals,
injuring
sparks
of
social
discontent.
We
them
its
regard
not
to a permanent
desigiicn
work
unemployed
submerged
economic
abilities
develop
the
dare
and
and to
class.
Americans
The
nation's
social
health
require
at
a good
job
work
as
be
superfluous
conscience
that
made
or relegate
as well
opportunity
available
to
to
all
force.
A job
is vital
to the
individual
It is the mainspring of his wellbeing.
in our work-oreinted
as
society.
It determines, not only his
in
his
family’ s income , but
most
voi
» it is the
doorway
from
lack
of a job
is
equally
workers ;
With
in 1962.
. number experiencing
An average
of whom
were
workers
more
of 2.7 million
of the
exceeded
probably
jobless
4 months
for
total
the
ranks,
or longer.
could
work but
full-time
than
more
slightly
unemployed
sought
its
of 4,2 million of
of unemployment
degree
some
a third
nearly
15 million,
out
in and
movement
loss
loss.
force, unemployed,
labor
of its
5.7 percent
national
For
worth.
Individual
adulthood.
nation had an average
this
in 1963,
But
to responsible
social
and
wie eee
of
sense
«
get only part-t ime employment.
statistics
Such
who produce all
all
products
There
in all
the
our steel and
rennet:
our oil
our rubber,
aroused the
sense of national
and productive
4 million
of over
total
unemployment
human
gigantic
the
oF
justified
not
have
is larger
they
waste
aha
repre sent.
The
of workers
number
the
autos
aneieees ion
equipment,
and their
other metals,
our
our elididebls
and drugs » and our paper
combined.
are
unemployed
as many persons
entire
of the
States
New
England
as
all
region
the
workers
or all
the
employed
workers
in
a
ot
es
nn
Mi
d
an
,
ka
as
br
Ne
s,
ta
ko
Da
e
th
the Midwest States of Iowa, Kansas,
combined.
‘The unemployment
families.
individuals,
The
work.
With
A vail
over
study
a tenth
unemployed
rare
tally
are
counts only
workers,
of the unemployed
of the
population,
persons
exceptions,
their
seeking
not members
found that
were
alnost
is not due
affected
20 million
in the femilies
employment~--an
idleness
of
whose
opportunity
to
to unwillingness
to
« 3a
their
inherited
the
younger
other
too many
by
been
have
are well
of these
implications
The
(1)
growth
by
And
Korea.
since
averaging 1.4 million
last
resources
of
the
report
situation,
of Labor.
Secretary
of the
I urge
picture,
manpower
current
which
growth
employment
particularly
you to mark
major developments:
is growing
jobseekers
of
number
expanded
force
accompanying
unemployment
on the
In focusing
labor
in the
described
aspects
other
and
getting
of the
nature
the
plus
trends,
two
These
for
progress.
technological
and marked
of growth
cause
be
expansion of manpower
‘postaepicnaiela
than
rather
of
occurrence
simultaneous
inadequacy
pressures
should
which
trends
is
years,
rate
a good
overcome unemployment
to
enough
been
not
has
in 1963
rejoicing
the
of
Some
or recession
even
Today,
responsible.
is partly
rates
generated
the
Some
a long- continuing
although
economy,
in the
downturn
to
due
in growth
we
produced
depression
of
that
unlike
unemployment,
Our
as
today.
education.
of
Lack
which
educat ion,
competitors.
young
not
available
jobs
the
re ceived
never
for
in a year
born
unemployed were
up.
Many
or parental
of color
a disadvantage
type
Some made
died.
skill has
of
required
habits
or work
skills
training,
dried
opportunity
where
homes
for their
demand
because
unemployed
sufficient
of
to a lack
but
work,
are
Some
reasons:
other
and
jobs
nearly
1.1 million,
growth
a year,
rapidly.
25 percent
year
Last
more
than
the
average
ly
ab
ob
pr
’
d,
ea
eh
y
l
e
t
a
i
d
e
m
m
i
in the years
will be over
50 percent
than in
greater
decade. .
The
flood
for the bulk
of postwar
of the
growth,
babies
but
at
and approaching
increasing
numbers
work age
of women,
accounts
eager
to
oe
broaden
their
seeking
at
time,
same
the
At
result
of technological
workers
the
‘Lute
declines
employment
Agricultural
throwing
fei
changes,
experienced
example,
to ‘urban
farmlands
from
in 1963.
declined
in parts
constantly
is
a
as
labor
demand for
the
of workers
migration
Manpower released by
and
of manufacturing » mining,
rail
transport
communities.
in many
substantial
also
are
in
change
of jobseekers.
Farm employment
areas.
other
and
pool
encourage
to
continue
shifts
rapid
also
are
responsibilities,
opportunity.
economic
lectin
least
household
beyond
activity
cal
hni
tec
er
oth
and
n
tio
oma
aut
or,
lab
for
and
dem
of
ms
ter
In
(2)
more
advance | permit
output
Productivity
rapidly.
industries
in the
last
with
less
in manufacturing
ine
several
yars
Productivity
manpower.
have
and
some nonmanufacturing
greater
been
is rising
than the
atiwar
average «
.
strides
Rapid
in general diminishing
requirements,
needs
new
for
in technology
Overall,
the
new
jobs
the
need
for
are
also changing skill
common
labor
and
expanding
education.
and more
skills
and knowledge
being
stimulated
by new
technology or
few
too
far
s
thu
are
g
win
gro
is
and
dem
or
lab
re
whe
‘developing in sectors
to
on
ati
loc
or
nts
eme
uir
req
ll
ski
in
ent
fer
dif
in number and often too
employ all those
(3)
seeking jobs.
d,
te
ca
du
re
de
un
d
an
d
le
il
sk
un
e
th
g,
un
yo
The major losers are the
the laid-off older workers with outmoded
hard-hit
communities.
skills,
and those
caught
in
ie
Almost
of the mid- 1950s.
those
twice
fully
examined
to
our
do the
were
olds
tested
away by the
turned
same
when
higher
age
they work.
Nonwhite
discrimination
joblessness
rates
unemployment
group;
are
workers,
with
in deleyuant ,
of white
Unemployed
the
truly
they
and
skills
than
suffer more
get
poorer
impairments.
fail.
to
in the
earn
and
less
deprivation.
plagued by
further
the
twice
jobs
and
of poverty
products
limited
population
of the
rest
the
by
il
fa
o
wh
e
s
o
h
t
at
th
ow
We kn
education;
less
they have
They
than
to
equipped
is hardly
forces
armed
enough
a third would
fully
today,
of
of health
or because
Test
.
t
n
e
m
y
o
l
p
m
e
n
a
i
l
i
v
i
c
earn a good living in
have
into
because
well
arithmetic
simple
Qualifications
Forces
1 Beeian
A youth
and
write
service
for military
found unqualified
ds:
read,
Armed
the
If all
first
now
men
young
two
every
of
One
experience:
Service
Selective
inability
pass
this
startlingly
revealed
is
youngsters
of many
unpreparedness
The
being
of
translated
resources Was
manpower
youth
past
unemployment.
greater
recent
in our
growth
of new
surge
teenage
with
but
in the
» most
only
rising
employment
by
increased
force
labor
in the
Teenagers
year,
e
r
a
d
n
a
2
6
9
1
r
e
v
o
d
r
i
h
jumped a t
rates
Youth unemployment
wants him.
seeks work
in 5 who
1 teenager
can find no one who
today
rate
of
workers.
older
remain
workers
out
of work
far
longer
than those
under age 15 xhobenisck
Individual
stagnation
continue
communities
to
exist
or
in
regions
Large
of
number.
economic
Of
150
contraction
major
labor
or
markets,
» &-
Virginia
West
Great
Appalachian
in the
States
other
or more
a fourth
as
as much
area have
Lakes
too
for
we
are
opportunities
shipping,
The
as much
way
a long
is
that
lost
many benefits
of the
than
Youth
at
Negro
and
opportunities
the
bargaining
from
needed
the
having
to
solve
through
sitton! s workforce
gained by them
from
are
change.
technical
continuing
rapid
in cieeeigy-
dgvotiebiiageiict
those
alarm
functioning
employment
railroad,
of the
among
Although
progress »
now wondering
and
industries.
arousing
accepted technological
eenienete
like
is
wrongs.
in good
and other
is also
rooted
generally
confidence
problems
airline
of unemployment
serious
is
is
social
and
economic
of many
root
rightful
community's
The
in other
as
newspaper,
longshore,
spectre
rights
collective
though
who have hi haut tally
parts
is
insecurity
Even
disputes.
the
equal
insistence on
Job
well,
is
among nonwhites
High unemployment
tension.
increased vactal
difficulties
ment
of benefits
unemployment.
long-term
delinquency is rising {xmexk).
growing
in
duration
or because
requirements
of restrictions
.
ds
en
tr
r
he
ot
in
e
bl
si
vi
is
nt
me
oy
pl
em
un
of
nd
The ha
(4)
causing
resources
Nearly half <t}xthe
all because
at
no benefits
are receiving
or qualifying
brief
upper
only 4
are meeting
Limited part of income needs during unemployment.
coverage
in the
human
of their
meanwhile,
insurance benefits,
Unemployment
unemployed
and
area
in idleness.
away
wasting
and
of Kentucky,
Parts
in 1963.
unemployment
suffered over 6 percent
whether
workers
aware
of
significant
more
technological
is
to ne
advance.
The
Challenge
ment
tragedy
waste
and human
human
and technical
manpower
active
‘the
I propose
policy
requires
a combination
of approaches,
the
inventiveness
and
with
nical
and
advance,
or radical
desire
in recognition
details
but
to use
“€1) | Create more
a sustained basis
we seek for ‘ei
by machines
outside
will
vary
characterized
outline,
I here
unfolded
actively
our
Shek
nation.
are hg ccties in glamour
and
emphasis,
scope,
new in
in experimentation : and
of different
as we progress,
jad cies.
but
our
new
Individual
active
manpower
primarily on four major areas.
Economic
jobs.
With productivity
greater economic
have
which
challenge
pursued
waikscheratantea,
new in attitude,
of interrelatedness
policy must esis date
enough
which
the knowledge
and priorities
jobs.
our
of both
which fulfills
this
to meet
supported resolutely by all the
innovation,
to put
ingenuity
ingredients,
Its main
future
that
the
eradicate
for all Americans.
promise
America's
full use
to make
to hasten
to
is
us
before
challenge
of unemployment,
resources,
wide unemploy-
not be built by tolerating
The
progress.
retarding
or
seek will
we
‘The future
and the
growth has not been generating
labor
force ‘both
growth than ever in the peacetime
to provide
the
numbers
ast
of additional
growing rapidly,
is required on
job opportunities
d
lace
disp
e
thos
,
force
r
labo
the
to
s
omer
newc
the
ed,
unemploy
or by declines
ne individual
the labor force who want
industries
or areas,
and those
employment if opportunities become
.
ed
oy
pl
em
y
ead
alr
se
tho
for
s
tie
uni
ort
opp
ter
bet
n
and to ope
available--
~
This
means
effects
on
numbers
of useful
groups
job
that
economic
creation,
new
of workers
«
policies
and programs
job
in
10
must
developed
opportunities,
greatest
be
viewed
to
in terms
help
particularly
create
for
by our
in education,
growing
building of additional
new
in
job opportunities
regions
or
creating
facilities
new
services
and
obstacles
to
services
jobs
called
sought
in developing
decayed
of
scientific
translate
to
for vastly greater
and other
rebuilding
in
community
more
doing
It means
health
It means
systems,
transit
mass
efficient
recreation,
population.
greater
need.
It means moving ahead to open the possibilities
employment
of
areas,
and
our
crowded
for by
not
known
cities.
additional
into
advances
on new products
of
fenaible
or
before.
reducing
It means
encouraging
be
may better
able
institutions
existing
(2)
are
efforts
Raise
too
of
enterprising
private
govermment,
of
units
different
which
forms
new
to
not
high
completed
ena marginally
economic
and
of
inadequate
or
skill
school.
aipirhdecka
have
for
little
training.
If the
their
social poverty to
our
of
eiuina.
and non-profit
potential
than
alone.
Education and training
technological
or no basic
gt Abts
chronically
ent debe
regular
it means
And
combinations
expansion
levels of education and skill.
widely
education
enterprise,
incentives
or profit
investment.
Lugtvationscaew
areas
develop
A great many Miertoans
advanced
expansionary
of
age.
education,
the
unemployed
unemployed,
uae
employment,
ever
let
to be
alone
have
underemployed,
lifted
from
they must be better
ok
And this requires vast broadening of educational
educated and trbined,
but for the workforce
The
new jobs
Availability
all levels
poorly
the
educated,
for
a precondition
particularly
manpower,
fields,
and managerial
inflationary competition
and
for seuee
availability
of apprenticeship,
efforts,
stimilate
help
of qualifed
in the
steele
training
will
for
is
spur to job formation.
and balanced
public
industry and
only
is often
creating
eicuhwaden
in
also in itself a powerful
A major
not
of trained workers
to life.
talent
of uigh-Invet
at
skills,
as a whole.
availability
scam: ing
upgraded,
be
adaptability
and
in
demand
and. rising
technical and professional occupations require that
skilled,
education,
:
it fully.
requirements
in skill
changes
rapid
Moreover,
|
aid get and benefit | from
such
those who need
that
assure
and methods which
incentives
using
opportunity,
and training
sustain
job
of
quality
and
and of education
eeotie-dnd
help
avoid
|
skills.
in
l
vita
is
ng
ini
tra
and
ion
cat
edu
er
bett
in
t
men
est
inv
ed
Expand
broader terms as well,
educational
collective
ettatonent «
of the
iedon
on them : depend
equip
The
in the
and well
are firmly based on
inventions » leadership,
discoveries,
nation
on how widely
future,
our
and
and its ability to capitalize
education
and training
systems
our people.
Increasingly
the
for innovation and advance
ability
competition
of the
and to
rapid improvement
too,
in a world with
United
aid the
States
poorer
to hold
nations
huge
its
resources of unskilled manpower,
own
in international
rests heavily
of national knowledge and work skills.
on
economic
continuing
and
»
|?=
Potential jobs and jobseekers are
Improve paths to jobs.
(3)
alone.
To bring
them
remove
restraints
on
--eliminate
age » sex
or
to ability,
unrelated
other characteristics
employment
origin,
national
race,
for
discrimination
to
paths
seek to0--
policy must
manpower
‘opportunity » an active
the
choice and broaden
job
help
to
efficiently,
and more
quickly
together more
skill
of
lack
than
other
or obstacles
by deficiencies
apart
often kept
Aepateaat
information
_
s,
er
rk
wo
d
ie
if
al
qu
of
ty
li
bi
la
ai
av
and on
‘SEperseae ee
ye”
better
signees
and
resourceful
more
preyade
for workers
guidance
testing,
on how their
and youth
for workers
connie lian
can be matched with opportunit les,
aptipaes
--expand
job
on emerging
job vacancies,
on current
and
(eeciittins ;
services
placement
job
employers,
designing
to
fit abilities),
needed
sete
geographic
ee
<>
--develop
due
(4)
|
from
voluntary
separation
technological
and
Live
or
Aid the disadvantaged.
to which
permanently
of workers
for preparing
means
offered ‘by these programs
dignity
mobility
the
a ‘dignified
labor
and
and
industry | #0 overcome
jobs,
in advance
for manpower
lany human beings need more than is
should be
essential
adjustments
economic change °
if they are to help themselves
all dicicins
infirm,
well
of
need
entitled.
is adequate
or live
For the
income
in the
aged and
to wie
emergencies
existence.
n
io
at
ip
ic
rt
pa
ve
ti
si
po
to
in
em
th
Others need special help to lift
in our
economic life .
Many
of the
chronically
dependent ’ the
children
“as
in deprived
groving
in our
and
society
competitive
surface
to the
programs
other public ‘and private
bea
uchak contribution
coverage , inadequacies
is
focus
prime
rewarding
in amounts
necessarily
contribution
formerly
with many
years
useful purpose.
put to
compensation,
often help
severe disadvantage
with
potential which new te chniques
found employable
and help
mentally
the
for productive
in recent
unemployment
Although welfare,
their
has
"unemployable"
can often bring
have
each
others
potential
Experimentation
scrb-vetbeuient.
considered
and
physi cally handicapped,
retarded ; the
hostile,
socially
the
circumstances,
and
minimum wage,
alleviate
their
hardship,
in
ps
ga
by
d
te
mi
Li
y
sl
ou
ri
se
is
return
provided
on
fact
that
and, above
all,
the
rather
than
on upgrading
sustenance
of
abilities.
These
but
underutilized
through
compassionately,
services
development
intere st and
pare
»
other
Such
beings
dedicated
to build their
prerequisites
enlightened
reduce many of our social
economy and our
human
spiritual
must
use
hope »
for
inve stment
be
helped, not
of mouere
their
rehabilitative
self-respect,
constructive employment
in our poorest manpower
burdens and immeasurably
foundation.
grudgingly,
and
their
and
weir:
will
tapyitebly
strengthen both our
Taken
Steps
an active
Such
in individual projects,
specific
communities,
for
national
application.
developed
be
sndely
examples
Many
|
New
training
employable
to veterans,
assistance
educational
methods and
the
untrained,
educated,
through
solved
and subsequent
devised by
industry made
physi cally unfit.
the
for minority
lowered
were
workers
Unprecedented manpower problems
constructive results.
repeatedly were
on a voluntary
quickly
bars
discrimination
Employment
and women with
the
badly
Basic
brought permanent benefit to many.
redesign
job
in history can
experience.
service,
in military
training
and technical
literacy
and periods
are provided by our wartime
worked
What has
precedent.
successful
noted has
Every measure
dream,
a distant or impractical
is not
policy
manpower
peut itis
coope ration 3 fundamentally
basis.
as
s
on
as
re
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minimum unemployme
of unemployment concern.
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get at special
first be felt
adequate
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but
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whose
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we mst
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discourage excessive
and
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eliminate dis-
unprepared,
of the nation,
unemployed,
and secondary
overtime
reduction of unemployment ;
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shaping of a comprehensive
active
business
before this
Conereee
in the
specifically:
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start afresh
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environment,
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to
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enable
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of marginal
poverty
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streets
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Corps
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Act.
Employment
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for the
plea
Kennedy's
President
T renew
develop
to
employnent
new
gain
habits,
and work
skills
selves, find a new relationship between school and work,
men
for young
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get
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and operated projects.
conceived
needed
provide
wield
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Youth
respect for
them-
and establish
realistic plans for their future.
(2)
The elementary and secondary schools meanwhile continue to
feed more unprepared
poverty-stricken
penalize
quate
schools
apply
necessary
The
resources.
be
and, community's
broken
if we
as
young
inade-
failure
invest
to
adequately
resources.
action to improve
possible
I urge the earliest
and secondary
a
cycle
on the
grip
its
them for their parents'
in the needed educational
elementary
retains
ignorance
areas,
in
Particularly
the workforce.
into
eldewsies
education
of
so that more
the
quality
of
children will not be
frittered away.
to supplement
‘Further,
and higher education,
correct
both
to
that
learning
let
literacy
need
not
last year's
notable
us broaden
education
deficiencies
of the
halt
at
diploma
time.
legislation
opsertanities
for vocational
for adults,
undereducated and to assure
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(3)
Discrimination's
national performance.
Puerto
injustice and forced waste also hamper’
While many legislative recommendations I have made
will particularly benefit
American,
«
Rican,
economically
Indian,
depressed Negroes,
and other minority
ment of skills would be futile for
groups
as well,
improve-
if employment opportunity is still
discrimination.
by
blocked
and Mexican-
I therefore urge adoption of the civil rights legislation recommended
by this Administration,
which includes provision for Federal fair employment
practices requirements,
applicable to employers and unions, to help assure
all Americans
of equality in the right and opportunity to earn a decent
living.
(4)
economic
Areas
base.
Acceleration
heavy
of high unemployment urgently need help to rebuild their
Assistance
Acts, found so useful by comm ities
unemployment,
Prudence
under the Area Redevelopment
in federal
must
not
be
stifled
expenditures
does
for lack
not
and Public Works
striving to overcome
of adequate
justify
cutting
funds.
back
in such
areas of great human need. Iurge that additional appropristions be provided
to carry forward their valuable contribution.
Manpower Act, we can combine work activity
cnsagtiarid and
For
the
poverty, the
should
largest . aid
Appalachian
‘be asking
the nation
determine
whether
ment
techniques
hopelessness
give
priority
most
area
eradicate
severely
program
the
which afflict this
shame
to
troubled
do
so.
regional pocket
over parts
on a farsighted
a multi-state
can
and training for the hard-core
to efforts
stretching
to embark
Under these Acts and the
of 10 States ; £ will
experi ment--an
of comprehensive
of hunger,
of
and new develop-
disease,
great part of America.
effort to
ignorance
and
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restating
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resources,
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on each
of these
science
of defense,
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that
and other
policies
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p
s
in
an active
manpower policy
needs.
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m
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to help
assess
realistically
resources
how
different
programs
affect
the
nation's
manpower
.
s
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m
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r
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and
d
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s
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early this
year
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4 manpo
program
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to aid youn 1g
With
selective
underqualified
service
examinations
veins
.
t
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e
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p
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of recurrent
finding
education
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and healt
take
training,
of guidance,
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given
assistance
other referral
living overcome,
Second,
their
limitations
still young,
While
on ability
to earn
a
be crippled forever.
their employability
before
to over-
grounds will be
needs.
on their health
conserved,
can be
their potential
and
services
rehabilitation
t
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present 40-hou
unemployment
to today's
use
and productive
of our manpower
prevalent
in large
difficulties.
parts
of
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HARRIS - Professor at Howard Law School
and Co-Chairman of Women's Committee
on Cjvil Rights.
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
February
Dear
10,
1964
Walter:
As Itold Jack Conway today, Bob
Schaetzel of the State Department,
with whom you talked a few weeks
ago about the Harpsund meeting,
is an old friend of mine.
Bobis
genuinely anxious to be helpful and
you can have full confidence that
anything you say to him will be
treated with entire
discretion.
Sincerely
hse
yours,
Arthur Schlesinger,
Special Assistant
to the
President
Mr. Walter Reuther
President
United Auto Workers
8000 E. Jefferson Avenue
Detroit
14,
Michigan
jr.
THE
WHITE
HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March
Dear
5,
1964
Walter:
Iam grateful to you for your telegram
Saturday.
Your
encouraging
words about the press
last
confer-
ence pleased me very much.
Iam simply going
to continue trying to communicate with the
American public ina variety of ways.
The televised press conference is one of those ways.
Many thanks,
Walter,
for being
Sincerely,
Mr.
Walter
P.
Reuther
President
United Auto Workers
8000 East Jefferson Avenue
Detroit,
Michigan
so kind.
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April 30,
1964
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The White House
Washington,
Reyurtel,
from
Mr.
D.
C.
and Mrs.
President and Mrs.
Reuther delighted to accept dinner invitation
Johnson on May 4th.
Otha Brown, Secretary to
Walter P. Reuther
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Dear
Mr.
1,
1964
Reuther:
The President has asked me to acknowledge your
nice letter of May 28 commending the manner in
which Mr. Charles Ross has discharged his duties
as a Commissioner of the Federal Power Commission.
The President appreciates your interest and you
may be sure that your recommendation that Mr.
Ross continue to serve in this position will be
carefully considered.
Sincerely,
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suel
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to the President
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Walter
United Auto
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Reuther,
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