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...party assembled last week in Blackpool for its annual conference, the union men were in an angry, rebellious mood over Wilson's tough wage-restraint policies. Said Frank Cousins, boss of the huge Transport and General Workers union, who quit the Cabinet 15 months ago to protest the deflationary measures: "We are almost at the stage of accepting that the workers are on one side and this government is on the other...
...Hard Facts. At Blackpool, Cousins was determined to put the unions' unhappiness on record. As the first order of conference business, he introduced a motion to condemn compulsory wage and price guidelines as dampers on both trade-union activity and economic expansion and called for their immediate repeal. In answer, Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins made brutally clear, "the hard facts of life" gave Britain little choice. In 1967, he pointed out, prices increased only 2% while wages jumped 6%. "The only trouble was that we did not earn it," he said. "Production that year went...
...theater world was concerned would be good. So we took her into our act. Let's face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier, and she was in the big theater in town, really a step above...
...after six years of stringent economic controls under the Labor government of Clement Attlee, the Conservatives swept into power on a variant of an Old Testament exhortation: "Set the people free." Last week, as the Conservative Party met for its 84th annual convention in the seaside resort of Blackpool, the old slogan echoed again...
...Tories certainly hoped so. "This is a great opportunity for us," said Conservative Leader Ted Heath to 4,000 cheering delegates at Blackpool. "The Tory Party has always been the party which enables people to live fruitfully in freedom." Other Tories rose to underscore Heath's claim, pledging to abolish the controls that the Laborites are imposing. They promised, for example, to denationalize the steel industry if the Labor government makes good its pledge to renationalize it. Similarly, the Tories vowed to repeal Wilson's Selective Employment Tax and rescind recent tax hikes. When and if the whirlwind...