Word: laborings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bygone Banners. Fiery Party Chairman Barbara Castle had opened the meeting with an old-style appeal for public ownership as Labor's great cause. "It's no use waving the banners of a bygone age," replied Gaitskell. "Nationalization, on balance, lost us votes...
...Rubbish!" cried a voice from the audience. Gaitskell persisted: Nationalism is "only one means" to achieve a modern Labor Party's true end-building a classless society based on economic and social justice. "No, no," shouted some delegates. But Gaitskell urged that it was time to revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather...
...never have order until we have a planned economy, an economy in which the nation determines its own priorities." On this note, the party inquest ended: Nye Bevan had chosen to differ but not to rebel, and Hugh Gaitskell had received an unenthusiastic mandate to bring Labor's philosophy up to date with mid-century Britain...
Torch for the Church. About the only countering voice still around comes not from moderates but from a brand of leftist nationalists who do not like the U.S., but will go along with the Reds only to a point. The top anti-Communist influences are labor leaders and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week, in a rededication to the faith that became a tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin...
...stores it serves, the industry has changed itself completely to lead, cheer and consolidate the revolution. Canned goods are still the old and tested convenience foods, but such startling gains have been made by mixes, frozen food and instant drinks that one in every three of the time-and labor-saving products was unheard of only ten years...