Word: labor
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...forged 34 years ago. Negro militancy has siphoned off much support from urban Italians, Irish and Slavs. The war has disenchanted many intellectuals. Of greater concern to the Democrats is their fading appeal to the blue-collar vote, once their mainstay. California's Brown, who had the support of labor leaders but lost the rank-and-file vote, noted: "Workers used to ask about workmen's compensation and disability insurance. Not this time. The workers have become aristocrats, and when they become aristocrats, they become Republicans...
Flunking Freshmen. In Hubert Humphrey's bailiwick of Minnesota, Republicans profited from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's decay and disarray. Beleaguered by intraparty strife and a state insurance scandal, Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag was toppled by Republican Moderate Harold LeVander, 56, a St. Paul attorney and onetime law partner of Harold Stassen's. Swedish-descended son of a Lutheran preacher, LeVander is a stem-winding speaker who has delivered more than 200 high school commencement addresses with such galvanizing titles as "Rise Up and Build" and "You Have Singled; Now Score...
Soldiers in labor unions? The very idea would be enough to set Clausewitz cackling in his grave. Yet last week unionization of the West German army was proceeding apace-with the approval of both Bonn and the Bundeswehr. At a meeting with West German labor leaders in Baden this month, Army Inspector General Josef Moll put his blessing on the union. "My presence," he declared, "proves to you that we generals recognize the constitutional right of soldiers to organize in labor unions...
P.S.T. & T.W.U. (S.S.). It was indeed a turning point in German history. Ever since 1713, when Frederick William I forged the Prussian army into "a state within a state," the German military has looked harshly on labor. Army bayonets cut down the demonstrating workers in 1848; army rifle butts broke strikes in the years that followed. Even after the defeat of World War II, German officers retained their antilabor sentiment, labeled union organizing efforts "contradictory to the principle of command and obedience." In August, Christian Democratic Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel knuckled under to labor pressure and permitted...
...that Britain's application for membership in the six-nation Common Market was brusquely vetoed by Charles de Gaulle. Though the guillotine was dropped by the general, the Tories, then in power, undoubtedly helped crank it up into lethal position by their haggling over petty details. Moreover, the Labor Party opposed entry all along and, for that matter, many British businessmen breathed a sigh of relief at having escaped the threat of immediate Continental competition...