Word: deakin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piling up at dockside. And at week's end, this state of things had been going on for 13 days. The reason: a wildcat strike of 19,000 dockers who still scorned the come-back-to-work talk of Transport and General Workers' Union General Secretary Arthur Deakin and his union straw bosses...
British Labor promptly hit back. Arthur Deakin, Ernie Bevin's successor as head of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union (1,250,000 members), called on British Labor to oust Communists from their high councils*: "The activities of the Communists within the trade unions are mainly directed to propagating their political faith. . . . We cannot afford to allow the Communists' attempted infiltration into and domination of the trade unions to succeed...
...high-placed Communists in British unions: Arthur Homer, general secretary of the Mineworkers; Jim Gardner, general secretary of the Foundry Workers; Abe Moffat, president of the Scottish Mineworkers. Seventy out of 833 delegates to the last Trades Union Congress were Communists, as are eight of the 33 members of Deakin's own executive board...