Word: blackpool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, the Foreign Secretary visited Blackpool to defend the negotiations before a turbulent Conservative Party conference. Heckled and jeered by pro-Rhodesia right-wingers, Carrington withstood their demands for an immediate lifting of sanctions and pledged not to allow "any party to unilaterally determine the outcome of the London conference." Carrington's speech received a standing ovation and his position prevailed in a conference resolution; it called for an end to sanctions and recognition of the breakaway colony "as soon as practically possible...
Callaghan, 67, took his setback philosophically. "My mind is quiet," he later said privately. He promised his inner circle that he would stay on as leader at least through the 1980 conference in Blackpool...
...would like to associate her administration with a progressive African policy in order to outflank the Labor party, which had been traditionally more interested in the fight against apartheid. Further, the Tory leadership would like to dispose of the whole Zimbabwe issue before its annual party conference in Blackpool next month...
...policy of voluntary wage restraints, under which unions would limit pay-hike demands to no more than 5%. That stand is fiercely opposed by the 11.5 million-member Trades Union Congress, and was violently attacked by Callaghan's own Labor Party Conference at its annual meeting in Blackpool last month. Thatcher is leading a Tory assault on what she has described as "rigid pay policies" and calls instead for "responsible" collective bargaining...
...twelve-month rule was the hottest issue at Blackpool. Veteran union leaders who support it were jeered by the militant rank and file; one union chief, National Union of Mineworkers President Joe Gormley, was spat upon and called a "scab" by demonstrators. It was left to the Prime Minister himself, a trades-union member for four decades, to make the most effective case for wage restraint. In a forceful, televised sermonette, Callaghan pointed out that wage increases above 10% would "seriously weaken" the government's chances of containing inflation. "I was brought up to believe that free collective bargaining...