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Douglas Fraser, 63, has been the leader of U.S. auto-workers since 1977. Born the son of working-class parents in Glasgow, he came to Detroit when he was six. Fraser began his union career in 1935 while loading fenders for Chrysler in a De Soto plant. Though an avowed Western European-style socialist, he is also a member of the Chrysler board of directors. Says the union boss: "Before I went to Japan last spring, I asked the president of Volkswagen of America if I could still say the quality of Volkswagens built in Pennsylvania is as good...
...Born in Glasgow in 1916, Fraser can remember his father returning home from work in a distillery and lighting the fire with pilfered whisky. He was six when the family moved to Detroit and his father got work in Ford's River Rouge plant. After quitting high school in the eleventh grade because he was "impatient and bored," Fraser got a job packing cork insulation around water heaters; he was fired for trying to organize a union. Later he went to work for 75? an hour at the Chrysler De Soto plant, but left the shop floor to become...
With his party trailing the Tories by margins of 6% to 21% in the early polls, Callaghan fired the first salvo of the campaign in Glasgow, a traditional Labor fiefdom in Scotland's troubled industrial heartland. Claiming that his Labor government had "directly created and protected" 1.2 million jobs, he declared: "There is not a single part of the United Kingdom that would not suffer from the Conservative policy of cutting the jobs program. They would turn Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and many regions of England into deserts of unemployment...
Gerard Rice is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, Ireland, and is studying at Harvard as a Kennedy Fellow. He is writing a Ph.D. thesis on the Kennedy administration...
Blair House has heard just about every kind of talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...