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...problem is too vast and complex to be resolved by any one sector," he said. "The failure to move on urban problems is not only socially disastrous but also economically unsound. Each year of delay in funding programs will inexorably require enormously greater expenditures in the future." Added Pittsburgh's Mayor Joseph Barr: "Regrettably, it took a national calamity to provide the urgency and concern which makes this meeting possible...
Turn Around. By bringing the resources-both monetary and managerial -of the private sector to bear on the plight of the cities, the Urban Coalition answers demands raised by such disparate political figures as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy and Illinois' Republican Charles Percy, both of whom have urged far greater participation of industry in meeting the cities' needs. As the London Economist noted last week, "If Litton Industries can work out a scheme for economic development in Greece...
This convocation calls upon the nation to end once and for all the shame of poverty amid general affluence. Private industry must greatly accelerate its efforts to recruit, train, and hire the hard-core unemployed. When the private sector is unable to provide employment to those who are both able and willing to work, then in a free society the government must of necessity assume the responsibility and act as the employer of last resort or must assure adequate income levels...
Private Employment, Assistance & Investment, All representatives of the private sector in this urban coalition decisively commit themselves to assist the deprived to achieve full participation in the economy as self-supporting citizens. We propose to initiate an allout attack on unemployment through the following steps: > In cooperation with government, to move systematically and directly into the ghettos and barrios to seek out the unemployed and underemployed and enlist them. We will re-evaluate our current testing procedures and employment standards so as to modify or eliminate those practices and requirements that unnecessarily bar many persons from gainful employment or union...
These arguments are wildly exaggerated. The affected sector of the chemical industry is strong and has always thrived in international competition. Anyway, the new rates of duty in the Kennedy Round agreement provide a comfortable level of tariff protection, according to most impartial economists. And the level of protection is well above the other major chemical-producing countries. Still Congressional trade expansionists will never convince their fellow chemical protectionists, and the passage of an ASP repeal motion is questionable...