Word: unionistic
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...hullabaloo over labor-reform legislation, it appears that someone has been overlooked. I refer to the rank-and-file unionist. Without his support, no union boss could afford the elaborate retinue of thugs, lobbyists, and shysters that Hoffa commands. Yet the union members never question Jimmy's methods, so long as he gets results...
...spelling out two messages: "You must vote" and "Your vote is secret." Last week, in elections for the first government of the State of Singapore, the left-wing People's Action Party swept 43 of the 51 seats. Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock, 44, the able young trade unionist who established peace in the island after the bloody 1955 riots by jailing half a dozen leaders of the P.A.P.'s Communist wing, failed utterly in last-minute efforts to unite the moderate and right-wing parties in a "grand coalition to stop the rampaging P.A.P...
...trade unionist and the Socialist lady sheriff of Southampton, Stonehouse sat at the feet of Harold Laski at the London School of Economics, is a great man for causes. No sooner had he landed in Salisbury on a five-week tour of Africa than the whites were up in arms...
King's Trade Unionist. George's meticulously kept memorandums and letters give a levelheaded record of the advice he gave his advisers. He could write a letter to a brother monarch such as the one he drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing...
George VI had the feelings of a good trade unionist toward fellow monarchs, even dead ones, and at his own expense ordered the dilapidated sarcophagi of the three Stuart pretenders in the crypt of St. Peter's in Rome to be restored. When the time came for him to die, all men knew it. London might be a shambles, but its chief resident had come through it all with dignity and slim-waisted aplomb. At the end of his reign there were probably more supralapsarians than republicans in the country. He died, beloved within his Commonwealth of Nations...