Word: labor
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Love Call. Labor's inability so far to win passage of a single major bill that it sought from the 89th Congress attests to its diminishing influence on Capitol Hill and at the polls. Moreover, for all their outcries, the unions are in the curious position of demanding cooperation from the Administration while giving none in return. Union leaders have coldly and consistently ignored the President's request that wage-price hikes be held to a noninflationary 3.2% a year. In current negotiations alone, the International Association of Ma chinists is asking the nation's major airlines...
More from habit than necessity, the Democrats made a token effort to woo labor last week. Showing up for the final session of the construction trades union convention, Vice President Humphrey shouted buoyantly to the 4,000 delegates: "We Democrats need the labor movement. The President of the United States is your friend, and we are not going to let you down!" But even that ardent love call brought no more than a few tepid claps from the disgruntled labor leaders...
...invited to an American home." From such ex periences came a lesson later conveyed in a song the Symingtons composed by the swimming pool of their comfortable white house in Georgetown. "It takes time to know your neighbor on the other side," runs one verse. "Time to learn to labor in the vineyard of his pride...
...general election, Tory Leader Ted Heath clearly needed to pull out all the stops. Nor was his claim without a shred of support. Britain's major opinion polls did, in fact, register a slight shift to the Conservatives, though hardly enough to slice significantly into the Labor Party's huge lead...
...however, enough to convince hard-driving Heath that his fast-moving campaign was paying off. By air and auto, he continued to crisscross the nation, rapping Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites for rising prices, for failure to settle the Rhodesian crisis, and for waste in government. "Vote Labor and pay later," Heath warned his listeners...