Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STRIKE is over at Cambion, but the struggle between union workers and management continues. Faced with the stubborn refusal of Cambion to negotiate, the leadership of C.U.E. Local 262 realized its position was hopeless and so recommended that the rank and file vote to end the seven-month-old strike. The move was designed to preserve the union at the plant, at a time when about 100 of the original 250 workers who went on strike last April had been forced to find other jobs and another 35 former strikers had crossed picket lines to report to work...
...personality if not in rank, just about everyone agrees, in fact, that Richard is far better suited for the chairmanship than the rather remote, moody and brittle Crosland. The son of a coal-mining engineer, Richard was born in South Wales, where he became a Labor supporter, as he puts it, "almost by the time I had learned to talk." He won a scholarship to Cheltenham, a leading private school, then went on to Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1964. When he lost his seat in 1974, Harold Wilson dispatched him to the U.N., where his quick repartee, enormous stamina...
Like firemen dashing to douse a blaze, dozens of Italian Communist Party leaders have been fanning throughout Italy to calm rising discontent among the party's rank and file. For a long time, it seemed nothing could go wrong for the tightly disciplined, well-organized P.C.I., as it racked up increasingly impressive results in one election after another. But so many Communists in recent weeks have openly displayed skepticism or outright disapproval of their party's policies that the P.C.I, leadership faces its most serious internal problem in years...
...economic reforms that would significantly alter Italian society. Said he: "There cannot be an austerity policy to return to things as they were." To no one's surprise, the central committee formally endorsed the Berlinguer line and, in accordance with the Leninist dictum of "democratic centralism," formally closed ranks. It also ordered up the current grass-roots "popularization" campaign to win support for austerity and the party line. As a consequence, rank-and-file comrades across the country have been heatedly discussing the issue with representatives from the party's central headquarters...
Union president Sandi Polaski said last week that union leadership advised the rank and file to vote to end the strike as a "tactical move," apparently to preserve the union at the plant...