For 18 long years, beginning with World War II and continuing through the Labor government austerity that followed the peace, British trade unions have generally cooperated with the government in an amazing display of well-bred wage restraint. But at long last, a new militancy is in the air, and a new spokesman—thrusting aside Britain's square-shoed union leadership—has pushed forward to defy the Tory government's anti-inflationary program and demand a bigger wage packet for Britain's workers. He is burly, 6-ft.-2-in. Frank Cousins, 52, whose powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,300,000 members) last week published a resolution for September's Trades...
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