Word: reformists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president W.A. "Tony" Boyle, now serving a prision term after his conviction on charges that he ordered the murder of UMW insurgent leader Joseph "Jock" Yablonski. Recently, however, Trbovich and Patrick have broken with Miller and joined the UMW international executive board's pro-Boyle majority in attacking the reformist president's administration...
...Communist union de la gauche won an impressive 53% in last spring's cantonal elections (for regional representative assemblies). The two leaders differed sharply about how to deal with the leftist gains before the next Assembly elections in 1978. Chirac favored a hard-line conservatism. Giscard urged a reformist approach that might win moderates away from the leftist opposition. The difference came to a head in June when Giscard sent the Assembly a proposal for a modest capital gains tax. While Chirac maintained a conspicuous silence, Gaullist Deputies in the Assembly drastically weakened the bill before finally passing...
...Well, a few among the young voters," admitted Gelsomino, a bit annoyed at his friend's needling. "You should know that youths are impatient. Some of them complain that our line is only reformist. But as Lenin said, 'Extreme militancy is an infantile quality.' Of course, you have your problems too. The bishops' declaration ordering people to toe the line is going to hurt you more than it will help...
...indeed, it is to be expected in the nation's largest union, which has 2.3 million members ranging from over-the-road truck drivers to nurses and policemen. But a report last week by the Washington-based Professional Drivers Council (PROD), a small but increasingly vocal organization of reformist Teamsters, amounts to one of the strongest indictments yet of corrupt, self-serving and autocratic Teamster leadership...
...bosses maintain a sort of closed party shop, stuffing the membership rolls with cronies-or, as party reformers themselves say, even the names of dead people, for whom they pay membership dues. The result has been an entrenched elite, inured to change and the claims to power of young, reformist members. Complains Giovanni Prandini, 36, a Christian Democratic Deputy from Brescia: "The whole party is designed and built for the indefinite preservation of power, not its passage. It is organized in a strict oligarchy that blocks the young, either by compromising or suffocating them...