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...Clare Street in the little Welsh town of Merthyr, an old man sits before a glowing fireplace. Aberdare Mountain rises just opposite the front porch and the River Taff flows by the back garden. At 79, old Jim Horner, sometime foremen at the Merthyr railroad station, is as clear of speech and keen of wit as ever. He is also as stoutly devoted as ever to his son Arthur, old Jim's pride and pain. Arthur has gone far since his childhood in Merthyr. Today he holds the fate of the nation in his clenched fists...
...general secretary and boss of the National Union of Mine Workers, Arthur Horner controls the key to Britain's survival-coal. No matter how much aid the U.S. gives Britain and the Continent, Europe cannot recover unless Britons mine more coal. After a slight increase last spring, coal production is falling off again. That was the gist of Fuel and Power Minister Emanuel Shinwell's report to the House of Commons last week...
Martin Kennelly pulled no punches. He reminded the committeemen (who needed no reminding) that he had successfully fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 when he backed Henry Horner for the governorship; that he had fought Kelly again, though unsuccessfully, when he boomed Tom Courtney for the mayor's seat in 1939. He had not changed a bit, he said. He was going to go ahead on his own; if his ideas clashed with the machine, the machine would have to yield...
Edward Finnegan, and elderly gentleman who naturally portrays the elderly Major Petkoff, seems the only character capable of conjuring up any comedy. The others, in their assorted attempts to build emotional rhapsodies, burlesque the Shavian wit rather than convey it. Settings, neatly done by Matt Horner, demonstrate his expertness and the effects achievable by an outfit operating on a shoe-string basis...
...powerful National Union of Mine Workers gave the Labor Government another bad turn last week when it elected Arthur Horner as its General Secretary. Horner is a Communist. But so well do the miners like him that they elected Horner only three months after they had flatly rejected affiliation with the Communist Party. Even Ernie Bevin and Herbert Morrison were prepared to admit that Horner was an efficient union leader and a nice chap. But, they fretted, "we wish he wasn't a Communist...