For example, De Leonists and some other Industrial Unionists advocate parallel organisation both politically and industrially, while recognising that trade unions are at a comparable disadvantage due to the lobby of business groups on political leaders.

This mindset was expressed by David Trimble in the following terms: " Ulster Unionists, fearful of being isolated on the island, built a solid house, but it was a cold house for Catholics.

On 9 April, Chamberlain spoke against the Irish Home Rule Bill in its first reading before attending a meeting of Liberal Unionists, summoned by Hartington, hitherto the subject of Chamberlain's anti-Whig declarations on 14 May.

Having agreed to a set of policies, the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists formed a government on 24 June 1895.

Such a programme would help Chamberlain secure the Unionists ' hold on the West Midlands, and further enhance his power within the government.

Furthermore, on 28 May, Chamberlain reiterated his challenge to Free Trade orthodoxy in the House of Commons, amidst cheering from many Unionists.

Indeed, Chamberlain now hoped that Balfour would fail in promoting his guarded fiscal doctrine, probably with a strategy of eventually leading the Unionists in opposition to the Liberals on a purely protectionist platform after the expected defeat in the general election.

Col. Cooper's force attacked the Unionists at Chusto-Talasah ( Caving Banks ) on the Horseshoe Bend of Bird Creek in what is now Tulsa County.

The Liberal Unionists, despite providing the necessary margin for Salisbury's majority, continued to sit on the opposition benches throughout the life of the parliament, and Hartington and Chamberlain uneasily shared the opposition Front Bench with their former colleagues Gladstone and Harcourt.

By now all chance of a reunion between the Liberals and Liberal Unionists had disappeared, and it was no great surprise when leading Liberal Unionists joined Salisbury's new administration in 1895 following the heavy electoral defeat inflicted on the Liberal party.

He remained politically active and continued as the official leader of the Liberal Unionists, but his son Austen Chamberlain and Landsdowne effectively acted on his behalf in both the party and the Tariff Reform League.

Though he had joined the Liberal Unionists late on, he was more determined to maintain their separate status in the alliance with the Conservatives, perhaps hoping and wishing that he would be able to refashion the combination under his own leadership at a later date.

As a party that depended on an electoral pact with the Tories to maintain their MPs in parliament, the Liberal Unionists had to at least appear to be also ' Liberal ' in matters not connected with Home Rule including some measures of promoting reform.

In Parliament he resisted any overtures to the Irish Parliamentary Party on Home Rule, and, allied with Joseph Chamberlain's Liberal Unionists, strongly encouraged Unionist activism in Ireland.

After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.

Unionists feared that a nationalist government in Dublin would discriminate against Protestants and would impose tariffs that would unduly hit the north-eastern counties of Ireland ( these counties all being located within the province of Ulster ), which were not only predominantly Protestant but also the only industrial area on an island whose economy was largely agricultural.

Unionists ( including Ulster Unionist Labour Association ) previously 19, won 26 seats on 305, 206 ( 30. 2 %) votes, all but three of which were in the six counties that today form Northern Ireland, and the IPP won only six ( down from 84 in 1910 ), all but one in Ulster, on 220, 837 ( 21. 7 %) votes cast.

The STV system was the subject of criticism from grassroots Unionists but because the three-year period ended during the Labour government of 1924, the Stormont government decided not to provoke the known egalitarian sympathies of many Labour backbenchers and held the second election on the same basis.

Unionists also feared economic problems, namely that the predominantly agricultural Ireland would impose tariffs on British goods, leading to restrictions on the importation of industrial produce ; the main location of Ireland's industrial development was Ulster, the north-east of the island, the only part of Ireland dominated by unionists.

His plan was that post-war the ' Irish Brigade ' and National Volunteers would provide the basis for an Irish Army, capable of enforcing Home Rule on reluctant Ulster Unionists.

The Act had two amendments enforced by Unionists on 19 July – permanent exclusion and a reduction of Ireland ’ s representation in the Commons.

On 23 March 1977, in a vote of confidence against the minority Labour government, Powell, along with a few other Ulster Unionists, abstained.

Dr. Jaquillian M. Stemmons actually owned eight inherited slaves himself ; however, he and the other town leaders were Unconditional Unionists and remained aligned with newly elected president Abraham Lincoln.

The rest of the Supreme Court had nothing to do with Merryman, and the other two justices from the South, John Catron and James Moore Wayne, acted as Unionists ; for instance, Catron's charge to a Saint Louis grand jury, saying that armed resistance to the federal government was treason, was quoted in the New York Tribune of July 14, 1861.

( The other four were won by Dublin Unionists.

If he accepted the amendment, he would be seen as abandoning the Irish Unionists, but on the other hand if the amendment was carried it might disrupt the government by causing a split between the Liberals and Irish Nationalists, dissolving Parliament.

As one observer later put it: " Hyndman and Cunningham Graham, Thorne and Clynes had sought peace while it endured, but now that war had come, well, Socialists and Trade Unionists, like other people had got to see it through.

Whilst her deteriorating relationship with Unionists was the key reason Mowlam was replaced as Northern Ireland Secretary in October 1999 by Peter Mandelson, her move to the relatively lowly position of Cabinet Office Minister may have involved other factors, notably her health and her popularity.

With the defeat of his bill he dissolved parliament and called an election for July 1886, the result swinging in the other direction, Conservatives and Liberal Unionists between them winning a clear majority.

When Lincoln called for troops to march south to recapture Fort Sumter and other national possessions, local Unionists were dismayed, and secessionists in Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia were successful in getting those states to also declare independence from the U. S. and to join the Confederate States of America.

Well before the end of 1861, local Unionists and secessionists began to battle each other across the state, and guerrilla warfare erupted between Confederate partisans and the more organized Union forces.

Bell and many other Constitutional Unionists later supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, but backers of the party from north of the Carolinas tended to remain supporters of the Union.

For example, there is a common perception of The Troubles in Northern Ireland as a religious conflict, as one side ( Nationalists ) was predominantly composed of Catholics and the other ( Unionists ) of Protestants.

In the 2001 general election the SDLP and Sinn Féin both targeted the constituency heavily, in the hope that a shift in the vote from one nationalist party to the other would enable them to outpoll the Ulster Unionists.

Unionists and the Orange Order were fierce in their resistance ; for them, any measure of Home Rule was denounced as nothing other than Rome Rule.

" Later that year Carson and other leading men in Ulster were fully prepared to abandon the Southern Unionists, Carson's concern for them largely exhausted.

At the same time, Long was less attached to the constitution of the UK than other Unionists, and opposed last-ditch resistance to the Parliament Act 1911.

Along with many other Unionists he left in protest at reforms and became an early member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, serving as the party chairman in 1975 and being elected to the Constitutional Convention in the same year.

The ASCJ was a New Model Union, and Applegarth regularly met with other leading New Model Unionists in London, in what Sidney and Beatrice Webb termed a junta.

The committee was chaired again by Crittenden and included other southern Unionists such as Representatives John A. Gilmer of North Carolina, Robert H. Hatton of Tennessee, J. Morrison Harris of Maryland, and John T. Harris of Virginia.

The first chair of NICRA was Betty Sinclair ( Communist Party ) from 1968-1969 ; other committee members included Paddy Devlin ( NILP ), Ivan Cooper, Robin Cole ( Young Unionists ), Kevin Agnew, Conn McCluskey, Jack Bennett, Madge Davidson, and Fred Heatley.

Lansdowne's proposal received a hostile response from other Unionists in the Cabinet like Arthur Balfour and Robert Cecil.