Word: unionistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coal mines. They hint that should Attlee drop out at some future date, Bevan himself might not grab for control. Privately, the Bevan followers say that silver-maned Jim Griffiths would be a fine bridge between the moderate, old-line Socialists and the left-wingers. An old-style trade unionist himself, he came from the revivalist meetings and coal dust of South Wales, eked out an education in London's Labor College while his wife worked as a waitress, rose slowly but surely through the chairs of the mine workers' union...
...they had refused, chances were that the 29 mills where they work would close down. Northern hosiery manufacturers have been hard hit by competition from the South's predominantly nonunion mills. With the wage cut, the northern companies are hopeful that they can compete again. Said one unionist: "We don't like this. But it is a matter of survival for the northern unionized mills...
...Party. Because the Communists control the transportation, coal, and steel workers' unions, he thinks their power far exceeds party membership. Like France and Italy, Australia has had its share of Communist-led strikes, which have paralyzed the national economy. Tipping traces Communist power to public apathy. "The average trade unionist would rather go to a horse race than a union election meeting, and so the Reds can slip their men in top union positions...
Adenauer has wisely entrusted his embryonic defense ministry to a sober, militarism-proof trade-unionist, Theodor Blank. Blank's top experts, Generals Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel, have anti-Nazi records, though they also had brilliant military careers...
...struggle along as best they could through Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain's expert juggling of "essence" and "complexus," and Professor Florovsky's description of theology as "apophatic." In stressing a plea for a new social welfare system of economics somewhere between laissez faire capitalism and Communism, Unionist Reuther made his bow to religion by calling upon it to "provide man with a positive, fighting faith that will enable him to translate moral and ethical values into basic economic and political decisions." President Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America appealed for a permanent commission...