The passengers were members of South Africa's most powerful workers' organization, the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
During this period, however, there continued to exist a powerful workers' movement in the form of social democracy and communism which, had it been able to overcome the timidity of the former and the strategic incompetence of the latter, could have functioned as a bulwark against the rise of the extreme right.
The Durham Miners' Association, a powerful workers' organisation in the north-east, is unhappy with Di Canio's appointment and has called for Sunderland to return the symbolic Wearmouth Miners Bannerr, which is on permanent display in the Stadium of Light.
In November 1918, the office of the Chancellor was occupied by Friedrich Ebert, a Majority Social Democrat, and under pressure from the now powerful Workers and Soldiers Council movement the new government established a commission to plan a comprehensive socialization of the economy.
In April 1968, the same month that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers, the president of the powerful auto workers' union, Walter Reuther, traveled to Memphis to give the strikers critically needed financial support.
More specifically, much of the money was used for hospitals, to pay for raises for low-level workers, in a deal worked out with Dennis Rivera, the head of 1199/S.E.I.U., the politically powerful hospital workers' union.
It would also alienate the politically powerful postal workers.
Mr. Steel has also met with Peter Ward, the president of the powerful hotel workers' union.
And this year he got a very important supporter: the powerful health workers' union in New York State, Local 1199.
The strike was organized by the powerful service workers union ver.di, which has about 2.3 million members across Germany, and a sizable war chest to pay striking workers.
