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Coal. A colleague and reputed confidante of Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence is Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor. Heeding the grumblings of unemployed miners she summoned miners and mine owners to Downing Street, listened to both sides. After deliberation she offered the grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...
...Sept. 9), look more gnome-like than ever as he stumped on his canes into No. 10 Downing St. for one of the most special Cabinet meetings in recent British history. Gnome-like also, or like a maimed goodwife from the fairy books, looked motherly Margaret ("Aunt Maggie") Bondfield, the Secretary of Labor, who had to be helped from her motor by chauffeur and nurse, having broken her ankle on vacation...
Laborite Laissez Faire. Efforts to end the strike were not strenuously made, last week, by Britain's new Labor Government. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald seemed to think he needed a few days vacation, took it at his rustic Scottish home in Lossiemouth. Even kinetic Margaret ("Maggie") Bondfield, onetime shop clerk and now Minister of Labor, adopted a surprising attitude of laissez faire. True, a subcommittee of a subcommittee of a Cabinet subcommittee was established, "to consider and report upon" the situation, but even its chairman. Laborite Rt. Hon. William Graham. President of the Board of Trade, took only perfunctory...
...Bondfield, Margaret ("Saint Maggie"), Minister of Labor, and Britain's first woman Cabinet minister, parliamentary under secretary for labor in the 1924 Labor government. So strenuous were "Saint Maggie's" hours when she worked in a draper's shop as a young girl that only once a week could she take a bath, running three-quarters of a mile to a public bath, where she had to bathe and dress in 15 minutes...
...other six are: Lady Astor, the Duchess of Atholl, Miss Margaret Bondfield, Miss Susan Lawrence, Mrs. Helen Philipson, Miss Ellen C. Wilkinson...