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...ousting of the son of the company's founder." The implication is that David Sarnoff was the founder of the Radio Corporation of America. RCA was started in 1919 by General Electric Co. GE was soon joined in this venture by Westinghouse Electric Corp. and A T& T. Owen D. Young, an officer of GE, was named the first chairman of the board of RCA, and E.J. Nally was the first president...
...move toward a breakaway was led by a trio of former Cabinet Ministers -Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers-who created a new "Council for Social Democracy" to protest radical policies and eventually form the basis of a new centrist party. They immediately became known as the "Gang of Three," but were quickly joined by a fourth, former Deputy Leader Roy Jenkins. By week's end, nine more Labor M.P.s had joined the rebel ranks...
...split seems inevitable. Said Williams, 50, who was seen as the most likely leader of the breakaway group: "The Labor Party was born out of the secret ballot and universal suffrage. To go back to selection by the barons is unthinkable. It is a return to Tammany Hall politics." Owen, 42, a former Labor Foreign Secretary, insisted that "only a miracle" could now prevent the birth of a Social Democratic Party. In fact, late last week he told his Devonport constituency that he would not seek reelection as a Labor candidate...
...Enter Murdoch, who is reported to have offered upwards of $65 million. Says he: "I have a practical knowledge of, and a good working relationship with, the unions in Fleet Street." Indeed, despite Murdoch's ultimatum to the unions, labor leaders seemed pleased with the impending sale. Said Owen O'Brien, head of one print union: "Mr. Murdoch is tough, but he sticks to his word...
Labor's right fears that the left's extremists are endangering the very life of the party. In a letter published in the Guardian, Williams, Rodgers and former Foreign Secretary David Owen warned that factional cooperation was no longer possible: "The far left wants no compromises," wrote this "Gang of Three." "It is seeking not only to dominate the party, but to destroy representative democracy itself...