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...West may well be that "the European idea" has finally won general acceptance, as Italy's Spinelli argues. Nonetheless, that idea is still perceived in different and often contradictory ways by Europe's eager men of commerce, its wary, jealous politicians, its skeptical workingmen and its restless, tribal minorities (see story page...
...Neill was the first House Democratic leader to break with President Johnson and oppose the Vietnam War. It was his most excruciating decision. Even though the academics in Cambridge favored such a break, O'Neill's strength has always come from the workingmen, who in 1967 were still hawkish. His son, Thomas, reflects that "Dad had to sell the non-academics on his switch. He really saw himself as educating them to the realities of the war. He seriously doubted whether he would be re-elected...
...maiden effort last August, LaVelle told Tribune readers that the McGovernites were driving off workingmen in droves. He professed himself and his colleagues unmoved by the youngsters who rallied to McGovern's cause: "The blue-collar Hell's Angels are hoodlums; the upper-class Weatherman et al. are idealistic 'kids,' who are never idealistic enough to demonstrate on campus for mine safety after the live burials of their lesser peers in cave...
...years have Britain's usually fractionated workingmen been united in such a mood of disillusionment and defiance. The new mood promises to have profound impact on Britain's labor leaders (who are frequently ignored), on the country's entry into the Common Market (which is feared) and on the political system (which is deeply distrusted). The burst of labor outrage that followed the recent jailing of the "Pentonville Five" dockers on contempt-of-court charges was primarily aimed at Ted Heath's Tories, but the opposition Labor Party has not been immune. "As for the House...
...which Heath's Tory majority pushed through Parliament last August. The act is the first serious attempt in 66 years to reform British union-management relations; among other things, it established a special Industrial Relations Court empowered to rule on labor disputes. But rightly or wrongly, many British workingmen regard the new court as a basically anti-labor "political court...