Word: unionistic
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...Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled in May, he hoped to strengthen his Democratic Unionists against the bigger but less dogmatic Official Unionist Party...
...confronted by successive challenges on the industrial front. The leader of the gigantic Trades Union Congress and the head of the Confederation of British Industry both lodged urgent demands that she act promptly to reflate the economy or "there'll be nothing left to revive," as one unionist put it. Word came of an impending collision between the government and unions representing 32,000 waterworks employees, who had just turned down a proposed 10% pay boost. The chief union negotiator for 583,000 civil service workers furiously rejected a 6% pay raise offered by Thatcher's government bargainers. Said...
...censure of Kuron could aggravate a split between moderates and militants in Solidarity. Walesa, himself a moderate, has resisted all efforts to disavow the dissidents so far. Nevertheless, grumbling about his supposed timidity has increased among union militants. "The clergy has an important influence on him," says one unionist, "and I'm not sure it's a wise...
...whole, initial reactions from Ulster's political leaders were not encouraging. The Official Unionists' craggy-faced leader, James Molyneaux, warned against adopting a "rigged Assembly" and reminded fellow M.P.s of the fate of a similar power-sharing plan that was wrecked by a Protestant-organized general strike in 1974. The Rev. Ian Paisley, the militant head of the Democratic Unionist Party, denounced any formula for sharing power with Catholics as "totally unacceptable." Nor were Catholics enthusiastic about the proposed guarantees. John Hume, Catholic leader of the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, said only that he would...
DIED. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 85, India's Brahman-born fourth President (1969-74), a fierce trade unionist and pacifist dubbed the "genial militant" by the Western press and friend of such revolutionaries as Eamon de Valera and Mohandas Gandhi; of a heart attack; in Madras...