Word: bevin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government swiftly set up a court of inquiry to consider the busmen's claims. Chief spokesman for the busmen was raucous Ernest Bevin, general secretary of London's Transport & General Workers' Union and one of Britain's most powerful Labor chiefs. Secretary Bevin had a double job on his hands: he had to get the best possible terms for the striking busmen and at the same time prevent the strike spreading to the subways and trams...
Keys for Cages. Mr. Bevin is succinctly said by his admirers to have a "good jaw." He began by jawing the Congress into adoption of his resolution that the Government should begin to pay old age pensions to all workers at 60. Then, with the snowball of approval rolling his way he launched fiery onslaught against what Europe calls "rationalization" and America "Fordization...
Just now England is on the point of "rationalizing" her steel industry under the fiscal aegis of her great banks and with the technical assistance of a U. S. steelman. (See p. 43.) All such developments were attacked by Mr. Bevin as tending to replace men by machines, reduce the number of jobs, increase unemployment. His resolution against "rationalization" passed amid cheers, cleared the way for another directly attacking the bankers which was urged by vociferous John Bromley...
Last victory of the week for the Bevin jaw was the Congress's adoption without a dissenting vote of his resolution demanding that the Labor Government overhaul the Department of National Health. "Scandalous conditions exist!" he cried. "In the winter poor people have to wait so long in queues at the free clinics that they catch worse colds than the ones they came to be cured of. . . . They are constantly made to feel the humiliation of their poverty . . . supercilious doctors . . . shame...
...fight to the fore in a great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...