Word: trade-union
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...month that the pound sterling is worth only 51 pence compared with its value in 1953. The nation is still divided on the Common Market. The color problem is heightened by unemployment, housing and schooling conditions. There are more inflationary wage demands on the way, and more clashes between trade-union power and the government must be expected...
...last December, Opponents of PL grouped around a proposal by the Columbia-Barnard chapter of SDS which berated the national leadership on several scores: its attacks on the NLF, its almost complete silence on the repression of such groups as the Panthers and the Young Lords; and the narrow trade-union economist in which it conceived the old idea of worker-student alliance. The proposal did not assail the worker-student alliance concept, but rather modified it in the context of the student movement. It "must be expanded to include and stress the issues of imperialism and racism as they...
...Pardo Palace, Dictator Francisco Franco last week delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address with all the emotion of a wooden soldier. For 20 minutes, the Caudillo, 78, methodically pumped his right hand up and down for emphasis as he spoke in his lisping, high-pitched voice of trade-union reforms, of Spain's Common Market hopes, of Richard Nixon's visit in October. But of the political crisis that continued to send seismic waves throughout the country Franco said practically nothing. There was an odd, stilted sentence-"A spattering of the currents of upheaval agitating...
...Murphy, Tunney charged, "who claims such close ties with the White House, has said or done nothing about it." By a surprisingly large margin, the voters agreed. Tunney captured most of the normal Democratic majority and attracted an estimated 20% of the state's Republicans. Jews, blacks. Chicanos and trade-union families gave him substantial majorities, and he ran well in most of the large cities...
...welfare state. But his Cabinet appointments indicate an appreciable rightward shift under Tory government: probably revamping of Britain's confiscatory income tax and more indirect taxes, less government participation in industry, some opening of government-owned sectors to private capital, belt-tightening in the social services, tougher attitudes on trade-union reform and law-and-order...