Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Defense Act giving the Government full control over everybody and everything. As Minister of Labor, horny-handed Ernest Bevin could -if he chose-walk into London's stuffy Athenaeum Club, tap the Archbishop of Canterbury on his bald pate and order him to Sussex to dig trenches. Having, as the London Times put it, placed "our ancient liberties ... in pawn for victory," Britons wondered what their Government intended to do about it. Last week they found...
Bolstered with statistics, Minister Bevin appeared before the House and announced that Britain's war Government had decided to conscript both men and women for industry...
...industries the right to dismiss employes, except for misconduct, will be removed from owners and managers. Employes may no longer leave their jobs without permission. People whom the Government considers to be in nonessential employment will be shifted, and nonessential industries may be temporarily suspended. Britain's women, Bevin declared, will also have to toe whatever line the Government draws, even if it means placing their children in the custody of others while mothers work...
...single man who would have the confidence both of Henry Ford and Roland Jay Thomas of the United Auto Workers? Would a labor man or a management man be tsar of defense? Only a couple of days before, Britain's Minister of Labor and National Service, Ernest Bevin, had been put in charge of all war production. It might happen here...
While Franklin Roosevelt again revised the U. S. defense setup by giving it a two-man head (see p. 21), Winston Churchill last week again revised Britain's setup. He made Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Chief of Production Executive, Supply Minister Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command of economic and industrial policy...