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...oppose the moderates' candidate, 48-year-old ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell, for the job of Labor Party treasurer at the party conference in September. Key to election is the block votes of Britain's six biggest unions, usually pledged in advance. At first, Bevan seemed headed for success. Britain resounded with shrill voices echoing Bevan's "No guns for the Hun." The National Union of Railwaymen (323,000 members) announced their support. Many small unions chimed in. But Britain's biggest union (the Transport and General Workers) and its fourth biggest (the General...
...Blow. Last week, by a decisive vote of 505,000 to 223,000, the miners turned Nye and his policies down, and picked Gaitskell. To make the matter doubly clear, they rejected by a similar margin Bevan's starfcl against German rearmament. The vote was emphatic indication that despite the noisy outcry, Britons still reject the easy panacea of neutralism...
...Bevan, it was a crushing blow...
...bloody intellectual like Gaitskell instead of an ex-miner like Nye?" cried a faithful follower. Same day, the engineers, third biggest union, also plumped for Gaitskell. With the solid support of Britain's four biggest unions, Gaitskell was now assured of 2,800,000 votes (v. Bevan's 853,000) and election in September...
...Parliament, Bevan sulked in the Smoke Room, declaring with fierce obstinacy: "I'll fight the blighter year after year if necessary." He shook off friends who pleaded with him to withdraw and run instead for his sure seat (representing the constituency parties) on the party's National Executive...