Word: bevinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, looking for big men for the big job of boosting Great Britain's war-industries output, picked shovel-blunt, beefy Ernest Bevin to be his Minister of Labor. Ever since he had fought Bevin during the General Strike of 1936, it had been plain to Churchill that the strongest man in the British Labor movement was this publicity-shy union official who preferred not to sit in Parliament but wielded enough power to make Laborite Leaders Attlee, Greenwood and Dalton jump when he yanked strings...
...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...
...WORK LIKE HELL!" was presently adopted by Trade Unionist Ernest Bevin as the slogan of the Ministry of Labor and he soon rivaled Socialist Morrison with a ringing radio declaration: "Machine tools and instruments of production are now more valuable than gold. . . . I want another [sixth] column in Britain-a National Service Column resolved to win, and to win quickly! . . . It will deal drastically with anyone who seeks to hinder us in our crusade...