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...enthusiastic support of the working classes. Backed by press and public, with no real opposition from the abdicating ruling class, he brought forward such men as Minister of Supply Herbert Stanley Morrison, longtime Laborite Leader of the London County Council and Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, the horny-handed General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The British public, sick of the leadership that had produced Munich and bumbled through eight months of war, took these men to its heart, became so wildly enthusiastic over the "give 'itler 'ell" speeches of Ernest Bevin that...
...eminent spokesman for the anti-Chamberlain camp last week was Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells. In the London News Chronicle he also urged the removal of Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, proposed that the whole Foreign Office be reorganized into a small committee of foreign relations, including Churchill, Labor Minister Bevin, senior career diplomatist Sir Robert Vansittart, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton and old David Lloyd George. His Wellsian appeal to Chamberlain and followers: "Let us not recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore...
...Ernie" Bevin was a callow carter's apprentice at Bristol when famed Ben Tillett, hero of the Dockers' Strike of 1889-greatest of the 19 Century in Britain-found him and took him to London to help run his. dock and transport workers' union, formed in 1911. Rough-tongued old Ben manned the hustings, but Ernie's organizing, policy-planning and negotiating made the Transport and General Workers' Union Britain's biggest, and Ernest Bevin as its tsar the most potent individual outside the Government at the start of World...
Chaos was what Ernie Bevin found when he took over the Ministry of Labor from bomb-loud, burrow-slow Ernest Brown, and he lost no time restoring order...
With such sweeping measures, Ernie riveted centralized control upon British labor and management, went a long way toward gaining Labor-Socialism's objective of socialized production. Said Bevin to a conference of building-trade workers last week: "We are producing order out of chaos, and chaos it was when we went in. The system based on monopoly and big business failed to deliver the goods in our hour of trial." By last week Ernie was able to announce that production in some plants had risen 100% in the past fortnight. But that could be only the beginning. The catastrophe...