Word: unionistic
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...shirt-factory owner, Faulkner at 28 became the youngest M.P. ever elected to the Unionist Party-dominated Parliament. In his younger days, he was a hard-liner and he has a record of being tough on extremists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. But more recently he has cultivated a somewhat more middle-of-the-road reputation...
...sooner was the Rev. Ian Paisley elected to Northern Ireland's Parliament as the spokesman of Ulster's right-wing Protestants than he turned his victory speech last spring into an attack on the head of the Protestant government. Said Paisley of moderate Unionist Prime Minister James D. Chichester-Clark: "I'll make it so hot for him that he'll want to retire." Last week Paisley achieved that goal when hard-liners threw Chichester-Clark...
Died. Nikolai Shvernik, 82, loyal Stalinist and President of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1954; in Moscow. Shvernik made his mark as a trade unionist, becoming leader of the movement in 1930 after his predecessor had been purged for showing too much interest in the welfare of workers; Shvernik transformed the unions into instruments of the state that put production before workers' rights, thus greatly assisting industrial growth...
...track. The foreign systems follow a cost-be-damned philosophy and lose staggering sums. The Japanese railroads lose $1,000,000 a day. Many of the overseas systems are operated partly as make-work projects and are featherbedded to an extent that would shock even a U.S. rail unionist...
...Leonard Woodcock, 59, director of the union's General Motors and aerospace departments, which include almost half of all U.A.W. members. Woodcock, a graying, spectacled intellectual who looks more like a college president than a unionist, already has begun some discreet politicking for the job among U.A.W. local presidents. He recently was felled by tuberculosis, but has recovered...