Word: labor
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...first major defection from Wilson's leadership, and it concerned Wilson's prices-and-incomes bill, which had just been made public. Limiting wage increases to 3½% annually and levying fines of ? 500 on trade-union leaders who break the guideline, the bill naturally irks many labor chiefs-especially Cousins, who is on leave as chief of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers (1,460,000 members...
Wilson had hoped that his introduction of the long-awaited steel-nationalization bill early last week would mollify Labor's left wing not only on prices and incomes but on the Viet Nam question as well. He had miscalculated. Nearly 100 Labor M.P.s-almost one-third of Labor's parliamentary delegation-signed a petition calling on Wilson to completely dissociate the British government from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. The dissidents pressed so hard that Wilson had to move forward the date for a Commons debate on Viet...
Wilson already had come out against the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi and Haiphong oil installations. With Anglo-American relations at stake, he would be pushed no farther. Summoning Labor M.P.s to a closed-door caucus the day before the Commons debate, he blistered the left-wingers, declared that some of them sought a Viet Cong victory. "What government, Western, Communist or neutral, has done more than the Labor government to seek a peace in Viet Nam?" demanded Wilson. When no one replied, he said dryly: "The silence is deafening and overwhelming...
...While Labor's left was pecking away at Harold Wilson for supporting the U.S. in Viet Nam, there came a diversionary coo from his own kitchen. Wife Mary Wilson, best known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...
Arriving in Japan with four other U.S. Cabinet members to attend the fifth annual Cabinet-level conference of the two governments, Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, 54, and his wife Mary left the rest of the gang at the doors of their Western-style rooms in Kyoto's elegant Miyako Hotel and headed for the Japanese wing. Beds are all very comfy at home, but when in Japan do as the ... A thin tatami mat, please, and they couldn't be more comfortable stretched right out there on the floor. "It feels wonderful and is very good...