Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon losing his touch? Not really. But as old Capitol Hill Veteran Johnson well knows, Congress grows balkier with every day a session drags on beyond Labor Day-and adjournment is not yet in sight. While home rule for Washington is an endlessly controversial topic, congressional unrest undoubtedly contributed to defeat of Lyndon's bill...
...sure. Thousands of candidates from six national parties are haranguing voters for 450 seats in the National Assembly. The official campaign is confined to three weeks - just as well, considering Turkish tempers. Last week peasants in one remote town stoned and clubbed leaders of the pseudo-Communist Turkish Labor Party. A major dustup was narrowly averted in Ankara when Labor Party supporters tried to break up a rally of the ultra-conservative Republican Peasants' Nation Party...
...with a certain party. This week he flies on to New York to plead his case for independence at the U.N. Back home, Aden's powerful (22,000-member) Trades Union Congress, led by one of Nasser's fondest admirers, called for a general strike "by every laborer, merchant, student and farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear gas. In London the idea of restoring colonial control was repugnant to a Labor government. But back to colonialism went Prime...
...Labor Party gathered for its annual conference at Blackpool last week, Prime Minister Harold Wilson was dealing from strength in some respects. The latest National Opinion Poll showed the Labor Party once again leading the Conservative in popularity by a margin of 3.9% , after having trailed the Tories for most of the summer. The shaky pound had momentarily rallied to its highest exchange rate in 15 months, reflecting the first surplus balance of payments in two years. Wilson, however, found his greatest strength in his party's own weakness. With his parliamentary majority down to only two seats...
...Unions have got to learn to understand the world they are living in," Owen asserted as he reviewed England's bleak economic picture. They must leave "their never-never land" and the productivity per unit of labor must rise, if the British balance-of-payments is to improve, he said...