Word: coale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is given less chance to squeak through again, there seems to be no national consensus, or leadership, capable of effectively uniting the western farmers, Ontario factory workers, underemployed Nova Scotia coal miners, or Quebec's restless French Canadians, who seem more and more anxious to move into a separate world of their own. In Vancouver's Executive Club last week, a member complained: "Yesterday, for the first time in my life, my wife asked me how to vote in the election." He paused. "And you know something? For the first time...
...excited headlines. S.A.O. terrorism was hardly Charles de Gaulle's main concern last week. Far graver was the challenge to his authority posed by France's economy. It took the form of a spreading labor strike led by 188,000 stubborn miners concentrated in the grim coal districts of northern France. Three rival unions (Roman Catholic, Socialist, Communist) were out of the pits in a joint demand for a 12% pay boost to compensate for the creeping inflation that has wiped out much of their purchasing power in the past three years...
...strategists, the miners turned out to be worthy opponents. Though tempted to strike earlier because of the swiftly rising cost of living, the miners held off until France's coal stocks had been used up by the bitter cold of the past months. When the strike was only a few days old, factories began to shut down from lack of fuel. Support for the miners came from all sides. Roman Catholic Bishop Gerard Huyghe of Arras publicly stated that their conditions must be improved. In Paris, 3,000 university students demonstrated for the strikers, shouting "De Gaulle...
...Gaulle's requisition order itself was responsible for much of the sympathy for the miners. Under last week's decree, failure to return to work can be punished by dismissal, fines and, under certain conditions, jail terms. A coal cutter in Lens said: "We were striking for money and shorter hours, but now we're striking for the right to strike...
Appeals Endured. Harry Oppenheimer is the wealthiest and mightiest businessman in Africa. Besides his global hold over diamonds, Oppenheimer, through the Anglo American Corp. (of which he is also chairman), controls or holds substantial interests in a $2.4 billion empire of 150 gold, copper, uranium, coal, chemical, explosives and banking companies. A member of South Africa's Parliament for ten years, he left politics to run the business after his father's death in 1957. Because he controls South Africa's chief source of foreign exchange, and is a man with an international reputation, the nationalist government...