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...continued vitality can be attributed at least in part to shifting occupational trends in the U.S. Carter was able to hold together the New Deal coalition of blacks, trade-union members and the South. But that bloc, which in 1936 accounted for 60 per cent of the voting public, now amounts to only 43 per cent of the electorate...
Politically, the most significant side effect of the referendum was the way it has shaken up the traditional alignment of British party politics. Throughout the two-month campaign, Wilson was virtually isolated from the power base that supported him through twelve years as party chief. Most of the major trade-union leaders, the party's national executive committee and more than half of the Labor M.P.s publicly opposed the Prune Minister on the issue. Wilson and such fellow Labor pro-Europeans as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Education Minister Reginald Prentice were forced into an informal coalition with Conservative...
...that very reason, Mitbestimmung is viewed with hostility by Communist-and socialist-dominated unions in France and Italy, who want no marriage between workers and capitalists. In Italy, where unions are among the most radical in Europe, an experiment by the giant automaker Fiat to involve workers in production plans and manpower organization appears to be in deep trouble after only six months. Says Socialist Piero Boni, a leader of Italy's largest trade-union confederation: "Today, this is not the right way for Italy. Here we have to go on strike." In Britain, unions want more than...
...mean social unrest in many countries. The people will not understand that the oil question is the real reason for the drop in their income. They have never experienced such a postwar situation in which, despite progress in productivity, the real income will remain steady or even drop. Their trade-union leaders will be asked to strike. It might lead to political instability...
Joseph Drummond said students have to create an alternative to the "trade-union bureaucracy" in order to lead workers, because "working class oppression by itself doesn't make apparent the need for socialism...