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Plainest significance of the appointment was that Franklin Roosevelt had discarded the conventional specifications. The reasons he had done so were equally obvious : Mr. Roosevelt believes that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire...
Labor Leaders have been more articulate than the Conservatives. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin has made pointed allusions to postwar social revolution, and the British public is convinced that Bevin and his friends will not sell out the Labor Party as Ramsay MacDonald...
...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...