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than q 40-hour week.
He said the union has about
IL million members.
Senator Kennedy was asked
what special action Congress
might take at the session OPEN
ing next Monday to help the
steel industry and others for
which 1t is q bellwether.
Senator Kennedy said the en-
actment of housing legislation
and q school construction aid
bill would be helpful and that
so would easing Of interest
rates and tight money policy"
Queried on Nixon.
Mr.. Mcdonald was asked
whether Vice President Nixon's
assistance in settling the 1859
steel strike would help the Re-
publican standard bearer pick
up votes from labor in the
election.
Mr.. Mcdonald had praised
Mr.. Nixon warmly at the time
for intervening.
Today, however, Mr.. Nc
Donald said:
Sure he (Mr. Nixon played
a role. But very few remember
that he also helped the indus
try . more than he helped
the union"
COnfers With Bow1es
After meeting Mr.. McDon-
aid, Senator Kennedy held a
long conference with Repre-
sentative Bowles of Connecti-
cut on foreign policy. Mr..
Bowles gave Senator Kennedy
a preliminary report on what
the Senator called a survey of
the major problems the United
States faces and will face in
foreign policy" He said he as
signed Mr.. Bowles during the
convention to make the study.
Mr.. Bowles, former Gov.
Averell Hartman of New York
and Adlai Stevenson all have
been mentioned as possible
choices for Secretary Of State
III Senator Kennedy wins the
election. Senator Kennedy had
held earlier meetings here with
Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. SteVen-
son.
Senator Kennedy and Mr..
Bowles stood side by side in
the warm sunshine on the
lawn beside Senator Kennedy's S
summer home as Mr.. Bowles
told newsmen he had con-
cluded We've got to have a
fresh. new. creative approach
to foreign affairs"
A reporter asked what MIR
Bowles thought of the regional
confederation idea advanced by
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller OF
New York during the Republi-
can Convention. Mr.. Bowles
said Senator Kennedy and
others in both parties have had
the same idea.
Senator Kennedy and Mr.
Bowles then went for an after
Moons cruise on Nantucket
Sound in the Kennedy fami-
ly's power cruiser Marlin.
Senator Kennedy also met
this morning with Bernard L
Boutin. a candidate for Cover.
nor of New Hampshire.
Senator Kennedy told re-
porters later, II am going to
campaign in that State and
think we are going to carry it.
Senator Kennedy met fol
four hours yesterday with Mr.
Stevenson, one Of those he
beat out for the nomination
Mr.. Stevenson. who won the
1852 and 1856 nominations
pledged himself to support the
Kennedy johnson ticket to the
hilt.
Cabinet "Not Discussed"
Mr.. Stevenson has a strong
following in California, where
Democratic factional strife has
worried the Kennedy camp.
Mr.. Stevenson said the pos
sibility Of his being appointed
to a Cabinet post had not beer
discussed In their long talk. two
hours of it at Senator Ken
nedy's summer home, ard two
hours cruising on the Kennedy
power boat Marlin.
Senator Kennedy said he hao
received valuable advice from
Mr.. Stevenson, and that they
discussed future campaign
speeches by the former Illinois
Governor in California. New
York, Pennsylvania. 1llinoi.
and other States.
/ Mr.. Stevenson said that ir
the field Of foreign affairs "tht
issue Is not who can talk bach
to Krushchev That's easy
The real question is who car
marshal the resources OF thi'
country and the free world tt
meet the challenges OF com
munism all over the world"
The big question in foreign
policy, Mr.. Stevenson said, i!
"how to live in this world with.
out surrendering to the Com
munists and without war"
He said that involves ade.
quate defense, economic devel.
opment, disarmament and "con'
solidation and conference Of tht
Western alliance"