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Secretary of Labor Mitchell predicts that the election of James Hoffa to the Teamster presidency will lead to “more repressive” labor legislation than Congress would otherwise have considered. . . . Mitchell says the current campaign for a shorter work week is unrealistic in view of an expected labor manpower shortage of ten million by 1967. . . . The United Packinghouse Workers will demand a thirty-hour week in their contract negotiations with the meat packing industry. . . .Look for strong “right to work” drives in Kentucky, Ohio and Idaho this fall. … Individual workers are filing nearly half of the charges of unfair labor practices being brought against the unions, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

Secretary of State Dulles urged James H. Smith, Jr., the new director of the International Cooperation Administration, to administer the foreign aid program with the “maximum frugality. ” . . . Although foreign aid spending has been cut in half since 1953, the ICA staff is twice as large as it was then.

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