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...these blows weren't enough, the Labor Party's National Executive peremptorily challenged the Bevanite weekly Tribune for an "unwarranted, irresponsible and scurrilous attack" on right-wing Laborite Arthur Deakin, big boss of the 1,300,000-man Transport & General Workers Union. This, said the Executive, was a specific violation of a party injunction that forbids Laborite leaders to attack one another in public. The Tribune's misbehavior could, if the Labor Executive felt like pressing the issue, lead to the expulsion from the party of the Tribune's three Labor M.P. editors (among them...
...Shame, shame!" bellowed outraged Bevanites. "Withdraw! Let Nye reply!" Burly Arthur Deakin, chief of the Transport and General Workers Union and Bevan's frequent antagonist, lumbered to his feet to demand that Donnelly be allowed to continue. Bevan's pent-up anger and frustration burst. "Shut up," he hissed savagely at Deakin. "Shut up yourself!" yelled Deakin. "You big bully!" cried Bevan. "You're afraid of him," snapped Deakin. "Bully yourself!"-accompanying this last thrust by what one newspaper called "a gesture not usually used in polite society...
...hinted, did not represent their members' real wishes. Those leaders reacted promptly. "Mr. Bevan is a remarkable man, but his judgment is, so bad as to bring his genius to the gutter," snapped one unionist. "Apparently in his disappointment, Mr. Bevan has lost his head," said Arthur Deakin...
Nationalize Only Water. A barrage of left-wing demands for restoration of food subsidies, cuts in purchase taxes and a campaign for unrestricted wage rises bounced off the walls. Out of the din came the roar of bulky T.U.C. Vice Chairman Arthur Deakin. "What you're demanding, brothers," he cried, "is the economics of bedlam." Again the dissidents were voted down. The left-wing Amalgamated Engineering Union proposed a united campaign "for the early defeat and removal of the Tory government"-surely a natural undertaking for the body that gave birth to the Labor Party and represented the core...
Reassured by Deakin's triumph, union leaders went right on planning a greater blow at Bevan: a policy statement that would cut right across the "Challenge to Britain," and the re-election of Herbert Morrison to the Executive, in place of ailing, respected Arthur Greenwood, 73. Said one union man: "The days of the hotheads are over...