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Last week the No. 1 British trade union ist, Minister of Labor Ernest ("Big Ernie") Bevin, ordered all British males aged 41 or 42 and not already actively defending their country to register on April 5 for labor service (others up to 45 will register later). On April 19 British females aged 20 (girls of 21 will also follow) must do the same. To speed up the process of getting more people to work in munitions factories, shipyards, mines and upon repair of bombed areas, Laborite Bevin urged that 100,000 young women volunteer at once...
...Committee, appointed by Big Ernie in the expectation that they would throw feminine weight benind his labor draft, pounced on the Labor Minister instead. They said he was using the wrong method, should have appealed to women emotionally instead of giving them orders and regulations. To reporters, hulking Ernest Bevin said in sonorous nasals: "It don't do anybody any 'arm to work a little...
...homes of Churchill, Eden, Bevin and Halifax respectively...
...Ernest Bevin...
...Bevin, the Trades Union Congress and all British labor are working with British business is wonderful. In every business meeting I attended there were labormen present and active on the think level. Some labormen say the truce is only for the duration, that after the war business and labor will be fighting again. . . . But two things brought about this present cooperation:1) Hitler-when bombs started raining down, everyone got fighting mad, got together; 2) Britain's wartime leaders. Whatever Churchill's past mistakes, today he is the perfect rallying post. The cabinet is cohesive. And the King...