Word: labor
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Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Lu-chese. Corallo is known as "Tony Ducks" because he has been tried or investigated for extortion, loan-sharking, narcotics pushing, labor racketeering, gambling, strong-arm tactics and murder, but "ducked" almost all charges. His only significant conviction was for bribing a New York Supreme Court justice to "fix" a prison sentence. Both judge and fixer were given two-year sentences of their...
...Moving. Since anyone but McMahon might be able to hold together a coalition, several party members began quietly lobbying for the top Liberal job. Among the chief candidates: Immigration Minister Billy M. Sneddin, 42, Deputy Defense Minister Allen Fair-hall, 58, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, 62, Labor and National Service Minister Leslie H. Bury, 54, and Education Minister John G. Gorton, 56. In the end, it was a tribute to Australia-and to Holt-that overall government policy itself will probably shift little, either under McEwen or his Lib eral successor. Above all, McEwen promised last week that...
...long as they were yoked to the same desperation effort, the factions in Britain's Labor Party could think of little else but saving the pound. Now, along with devaluation's bitter, month-long aftertaste, a paroxysm of family infighting has broken out, presenting Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the first serious threat to his leadership in his three-year term in office. Labor's left wing is just spoiling for a squabble over proposals for sharp new spending cuts, expected next month. So defiant and independent have some of Labor's ministers grown, said...
...order to reassert his party command. South Africa, it seemed, wanted to buy ?200 million worth of arms, and could Britain please forget its three-year-old support of the U.N. embargo to sell them? It appeared that there could scarcely be an easier way of uniting all Labor than giving it a chance to say no to the Vorster apartheid regime. But at least five ministers, led by Foreign Secretary George Brown, declined to go along with Wilson's decision to do just that, claiming that 1) Britain could hardly turn down ?200 million worth of export business...
Rough Winter Ahead. Labor's left is due for its share of blows. Wilson darkly forecast "sacrifices of certain ideological considerations" as well as economic hardships in the forthcoming austerity program. That almost certainly means more cuts in military expenditures, but definitely hints at a trimming of many social welfare pets, including, perhaps, the restoration of a fee for prescription drugs, long a Labor shibboleth. In a mood of defiance, 30 Laborites fired off a warning "making it clear that we do not think it is necessary to cut social services." This attitude practically guarantees a rough winter ahead...