Word: gormley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Policy. Leyland's-and the government's-problems are far from over. Restoring pay differentials in British industry would introduce a severe complication in negotiations for Phase 3. The strike has sharpened union resentment against the pay policy. Joe Gormley, chief of the Mineworkers' Union, which brought down the Heath government three years ago, says "there is not a cat-in-hell's chance" that the miners will vote for voluntary curbs...
...senior captain and third baseman took his first RBI in the first inning as his grounder to second gave Harvard a quick lead off starting pitcher Kevin Gormley. Gormley gave up another run in the inning when he walked Ric LaCivita with the bases full...
...until the third, but could not capitalize for another run. Stoeckel had a disputed double in the inning as his shot hit the foul pole in right. The umpire immediately called it foul, but then seemed to change his mind, setting off a game-delaying argument between the umps, Gormley, Park and the irascible Eagle coach Eddy Pellagrini, who sounds somewhat like Yogi Berra when he's riled...
Jimmy Thomas and Stoeckel put the Crimson back on top in the sixth with a pair of RBI singles at the expense of B.C. ace Bill Ruane, on in relief for Gormley. LaCivita had an RBI base hit bunt in the seventh off new pitcher and previous designated hitter, Don McDonough to make...