Word: trade-union
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Hauled before Moscow City Court, reported the trade-union newspaper Trud, were nine persons charged with knitting together a nationwide operation that lifted cloth in wholesale lots from textile factories, sold garments fashioned from it at black-market prices. Behind it all, charged Trud, was one M. Rabinovich, 43, a textile engineer who had launched his nefarious enterprise 20 years ago by stealing from a Moscow mill employing invalid war veterans. Later, he expanded his operations to whole chains of factories and retail outlets where he had contacts. "Moscow soon became too small for Rabinovich," sneered Trud. He "extended...
...into 10 Downing Street one morning carrying his resignation. It was the first major defection from Wilson's leadership, and it concerned Wilson's prices-and-incomes bill, which had just been made public. Limiting wage increases to 3½% annually and levying fines of ? 500 on trade-union leaders who break the guideline, the bill naturally irks many labor chiefs-especially Cousins, who is on leave as chief of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers (1,460,000 members...
...victory come out of so dull and humdrum a campaign. For three weeks, Britons had barely suppressed yawns as the Conservatives and Laborites exchanged salvos of slogans. Searching for an issue, the Tories attacked Labor for not being eager enough to join the Common Market, for rising prices, for trade-union strong-arm methods, and for just about everything else untoward that has happened in the British Isles for the past 17 months. The Laborites shucked off the attacks, arguing that they had done their best, considering the mess that they had inherited after 13 years of "Tory drift...
...Encyclopedist Diderot warned that Europeans would despoil the Tahitians' Eden with "dagger and crucifix." The Rousseauian enthusiasts overlooked a few things: the Tahitians waged war and practiced human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism; they even had priests, an unamiable group who killed all their own offspring, apparently on trade-union principles...
Next Heath tried to capitalize on the sensational news of a kangaroo trial of seven nonstriking workmen by strikers at a British Motors Corp. plant. He hoped to use the incident as an example of how badly the nation needs the trade-union reform plan that he is pushing. Heath even briefly postured as a British De Gaulle, characterizing the French President's NATO-wrecking as "helpful" and darkly warning Britain against too much dependence on the U.S. So far, none of Heath's attacks have scored...