Word: trade-union
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This was not to be; last week Nkrumah's obedient press in Ghana was lambasting Mboya as being a "stooge of imperialism" and "under the thumb of the Americans." The reason: Mboya had dared to challenge Nkrumah in the race for leadership of the budding trade-union movement in Africa...
...party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to "a vow of silence, self-imposed," while he "collected the voices" about what was wrong and what needed to be changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider changing its name...
...showdown, Gaitskell could count on the support of the conservative trade unions, though he knows that union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed...
Backed by four smoothly concocted "eyewitness" reports, Trud, Russia's official trade-union journal, landed a punch on United Auto Workers President Walter P. Reuther. Three of the "witnesses" were described as Reuther's shopmates when he put in a stint as a worker at the Gorky automobile plant in 1934; the fourth was a mysterious "N" who claimed to be his long-lost wife, described how Walter wooed her ("an inexperienced girl") with talk of "capitalist chains" and "bloodthirsty exploiters." After eight months of marriage, said she, "he said 'I am going to America...
...reference to his age ("I am 60") that he would rather be a potential Foreign Secretary than a rebel who would never be Prime Minister. That left the left-wingers without a head but still capable of making a lot of noise. With the help of the stolid old trade-union wheel-horses who are the strength of the party, Gaitskell skillfully headed off the more headlong Socialist chargers. Hell-bent for equality, they wanted to abolish British public (i.e., private) schools, such as his own posh Winchester. They were beaten (see EDUCATION...