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...distance, hundreds of angry British dockworkers and sympathizers from other unions converged on London's hulking Pentonville Prison. The demonstrators paraded their banners like so many regimental flags. FREE THE FIVE, SPREAD THE STRIKE, commanded one. Others called for SOLIDARITY WITH THE DOCKERS! or simply jeered, HITLER 1933, HEATH...
...demonstrators' heroes-five dock workers who had been briefly jailed for illegal picketing practices -were the focus of what suddenly exploded last week into the most sullen and emotional confrontations between British labor and British government since Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath came to power two years ago. By midweek, when the Pentonville Five were released on a convenient legal technicality, upwards of 170,000 British workers had left their jobs in sympathy strikes that slowed or shut down mines and steel mills, virtually closed London's Heathrow airport, stopped most of London's busses...
Though the issues were complex, the fundamental question was clear: would Heath's Tory government ever be able to make good on its pledges to end the ceaseless labor strife that has sapped Britain's industrial competitiveness and clouded its economic and social future? Sadly, that goal has rarely seemed more remote. In the first six months of this year alone, wildcat strikes and sporadic walkouts cost Britain precisely 15,460,000 "lost" working days-more than for all of 1971 and indeed for any year since 1926, the year of the great General Strike...
Maudling's subsequent relations with Heath have been described as being occasionally on "iceberg to iceberg" terms. But Maudling remained loyal to the party and its leader, and in 1970, after the Tories' return to power, accepted the politically sensitive post of Home Secretary. He has a widespread reputation for conciliation and consensus, and his easy manner provided a welcome contrast to Heath's gritty obstinacy. Within the Cabinet Maudling argued against certain Heath policies. He favored wage controls and a more strenuous fight against inflation, and he opposed Heath's policy of direct confrontation with...
...Heath accepted his resignation with genuine regret, describing it as a "bitter blow to us all." Maudling may yet return to the Cabinet once the Poulson investigation is completed. But the whole affair has probably put an end to whatever chance he still had of becoming Prime Minister. That is a pity, for, as the London Times noted, "as a businessman Mr. Maudling was often mistaken, but as a politician he had the useful habit of often being proved right...