The cabinet shift occurred as four unions, demanding higher salaries, more jobs and protection for the country's generous social benefits, rallied railway workers to go forward with a strike that had been organized last week.

Although the newspaper drivers' union rallied yesterday behind the unifying issue of amnesty for nine arrested union pickets, proposed new contracts continue to sharply divide many of the union's members from its leader.

But many of Mr. Jennings's constituents and a few unions that have supported him have rallied behind him.

The union sponsored hunger strikes by students and janitors and rallied civil rights leaders and members of the clergy to back the unionization effort.

It is certainly understandable that the association's leaders are hoping that the Eastern battle will prove to be the flag around which the whole union will rally.

Yesterday, the unions for police officers, firefighters and teachers rallied at City Hall to send a message to the administration that the wage increases accepted by District Council 37 were too low for them.

A thousand unions, churches and community groups rallied to the miners' cause, and some provided picketers at the offices of Pittston Company, the parent organization, in Greenwich, Conn.

The workers' unions of Melbourne rallied their members to match Ormond's initial donation.

Instead, the union has rallied community support, including from politicians and members of the clergy, to pressure Riese to agree to a new contract and to unionize the fast-food workers.

Employees in Chinese companies were aggressively lobbied, left-wing unions rallied members to volunteer for Alliance campaigns and the pro-China newspapers daily assailed the Democrats for anti-China attitudes.