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Some 30 members of the House of Commons are onetime coal miners; they know the labor problems of the mines firsthand. Among the ablest of them is Welsh Laborite Aneurin Bevan of Ebbw Vale (pronounced Ebba Vale...
Last week, when ex-Miner Bevan stood up in the House to talk about coal, he went as accurately and painfully as a dentist's drill to the sorest spot in the British Government's war-labor policy...
...Mines David R. Grenfell had announced that the Government hoped to be mining all the coal it needed by the end of next winter. As it was, production was 25,000,000 tons short of the 200,000,000-ton goal for the year. This was too much for Bevan. He knew that 75,000 miners had left the pits in the last year, that the Army had taken 50,000 of them. He knew also that less than one-tenth of them had been replaced by drafted labor, that the Army had refused to release miner-soldiers when coal...
...these factions for the leftists. Mrs. Strauss sees them all as so many Joys and Glooms. Among the Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...
...proud of TIME and really thrilled when I stopped to realize that TIME readers in the States and TIME readers in Brazil (5,000 miles away) were carrying the same issue of the magazine in their pockets at the same time. Good work! FRANK BEVAN...