Word: deakin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly was the conflict over the Catholic unions settled when a new fight broke out-about the site of the new organization's headquarters. The T.U.C.'s Arthur Deakin fought for London. Some Americans favored almost any place but London. The squabble was a reflection of a deeper rift. The Americans considered the British T.U.C. leadership to be undynamic, bogged down in home worries and tied to the British Labor government's colonial and foreign policies...
Defeat for the Lizards. The most curious spectacle of the congress was portly, white-haired Arthur Deakin, anti-Communist president of the World Federation of Trade Unions, lambasting a Communist resolution in favor of the W.F.T.U. itself. Deakin's presidency represents British labor's hope of rescuing the W.F.T.U. from Red domination. That hope, Deakin roared, has gone glimmering. He said that the W.F.T.U. was becoming a tool of Soviet foreign policy. The congress boomed approval, the tick tack men flickered like lizards along the wall, and the Communist motion was defeated...
After the session one of the delegates said to Deakin, "Brother, you spilled a bellyful." Replied Deakin, "Brother, that's only the beginning...
Zinc & Freedom. When Deakin's men tried to rally the strikers, addressing them with the traditional dockers' salute of "Eh, brother?" they retorted: "Down with Deakin," or "We're not fighting the government but we want our rights. Where's our freedom now?" In 1941, they had bartered a little freedom for a little more "security": in return for a guaranteed minimum weekly wage, they had accepted a penalty clause. Now the clause chafed. It had required only a small flash to set off a rebellion...
...Deakin sat tight, hoping the strike would peter out. So, for days, did Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor government. But British tempers frayed. Cried a Tory M.P.: "It's the most effective way the Communists have yet found of sabotaging simultaneously the Labor government and Marshall aid." Said a truck driver (and Transport Union member): "When I get down to the docks in the morning and see these silly buggers striking at the gates...