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...determined to win more support for Britain's unpopular 30-week coal miners' strike, was Arthur Scargill, 46, the Marxist president of the National Union of Mine workers. On the other, with an eye on Labor's sagging ratings in the polls, was Party Leader Neil Kinnock...
Scargill spoke passionately for a motion to condemn police, not the strikers, for the violence on the picket lines. The measure passed amid tumult and cheers for the N.U.M. president and hoots of derision for moderate union leaders. Then Kinnock lost another battle, this one over an arcane party rule giving local constituency committees-usually a stronghold of party leftists-the power to decide whether their parliamentary representatives should be allowed to stand for reelection. Kinnock wanted all Labor Party members, not just the tightly held local committees, to have a vote in the process. The conference rejected his proposal...
That showed just how far Kinnock's star has fallen. Only a year ago, he was elected to unite the divided party and lead it away from its 1983 election defeat, Labor's worst showing in 50 years. Since then, the "Scargill factor," the link in the public mind between Labor and the miners, has lowered Kinnock's approval rating from 58% to only...
...soundly thrashed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives in last year's elections, many political analysts attributed that defeat in part to Labor's commitment to nuclear disarmament, which would dramatically change Britain's role in NATO. Last week the party, led by Neil Kinnock, issued a 52-page defense manifesto that eliminated any remaining doubts about its program. The document recommended a policy that would remove all U.S. bases from the country, scrap the British atomic arsenal and work to make Europe a nuclear-free zone. Declared the party: "We should no longer behave...
...right to forbid unions at Cheltenham, he ruled that the Prime Minister should have first consulted labor leaders and the Cheltenham staff. The decision, which the government is appealing, fanned opposition-party charges that Thatcher has been acting like an autocratic empress. Said Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock, with ill-concealed glee: "You have been found guilty of breaking...