Unemployment melted surprisingly in March and made the biggest drop in four years, from 6.1% to 5.6% of the labor force. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz took little satisfaction from the new statistics. "My feeling," he said, "is about what it would be if somebody's temperature dropped back from 104° to 103°.'' U.S. labor leaders are in fervent agreement with Wirtz, and their current pattern of contract negotiating is calculated to create jobs by spreading out the available work.
In contract talks opening this week, rubber workers will push tire manufacturers for paid leaves, ranging upward from two months off...
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