Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam." So said Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt last week as he gambled his political future on his determination to keep Australia's 4,500 men in Viet Nam. In a bitter election campaign between Holt's Liberal-Country Party coalition and the Labor Party of Arthur Calwell, Australia's Vietniks turned out in full force, organizing the most violent demonstrations ever staged against an Australian political leader...
...jeering mob of 500 swarmed around him, pummeling, kicking and finally spitting on him. When police finally got Holt to his car, a few diehards threw themselves across the road. The follow ing night at a Melbourne rally, demonstrators were at it again, chanting "Judas!" and "Traitor!" "If the Labor Party cannot control these demonstrations," shouted an exasperated Holt, "what chance have they in controlling our destiny?" Most of Australia's 6,000,000 voters got the point. At week's end, as the election returns piled up, Holt's coalition had gained four seats...
...withdrew our troops." Unashamedly, New Zealand's 1,200,000 voters gave Holyoake's liberal, socialist-minded National Party a majority of 44 seats in the country's 80-seat Parliament-a loss of only one seat-compared with 35 seats for the opposition Labor Party and one seat for the Social Credit Party...
Even after they win membership in once-segregated unions, Negroes often find that white union leaders refuse to negotiate their grievances against an employer. The National Labor Relations Act empowers the National Labor Relations Board to bar unfair labor practices by unions as well as employers, but the law does not specifically say that unfair representation is an unfair labor practice. As a result, unions have questioned the enforceability of NLRB orders to that effect, and many locals have continued to discriminate against their members on the basis of race or other arbitrary reasons...
After the NLRB upheld the Negroes on the ground that unfair representation is an unfair labor practice, Local 12 took its case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans and confidently cited the only precedent: in 1963, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York held that the pertinent language of the National Labor Relations Act does not make unfair representation an unfair labor practice...