Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party of change," said Harold Wilson at last week's 65th annual Labor Party conference in the Channel resort of Brighton. "We seek not to conserve but to transform society." The 1,200 delegates had no idea that before the day was finished the Prime Minister would begin a historic transformation of the British economy...
...support of the U.S. position in Viet Nam, Wilson was booed by Britniks as he read the New Testament lesson in a Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall...
Only hours after his speech, Wilson sent four ministers flying to Balmoral Castle in Scotland with an Order in Council for the Queen to approve. With that, a Labor Government that had been brought to power chiefly by working-class votes ended the most cherished right of the British worker: collective bargaining. The order changed Britain's present, voluntary wage-price freeze to a mandatory system with prison sentences and fines for anyone who dared pay higher wages, or mark up prices, without official consent. Wilson's aides made clear that even after the manda tory freeze expires...
Severest Control. To Harold Wilson there seemed no alternative. During Labor's two years in office, wages of British workers rose 21 times faster than productivity. It was the continuation of a decade-old trend that has priced many British goods out of the world market, brought inflation at home, and imperiled the value of the pound sterling (TIME ESSAY, Sept...
...beware!" Wilson's law would, he said, "lead to the smothering of initiative and to the flight of the enterprising from this country to other, freer lands." Dissatisfaction with Wilson was reflected last week in the Gallup poll, which gave the Tories a 2½% lead over Labor. It was the worst showing for Labor since it took office...