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HE BUILT A PRIVATE EMPIRE ON

THE HATES AND FEARS OF MEN

EMPEROR ERNEST

By George Malcolm Thomson

E

After a phase as an effective higher, polities. Upon the basic - Iny preacher at Poulton Bap- administmtive ability of tho

he drifted tist Chapel,

into

man were now overlaid tho the Socialist movement and quality of the polley-maker, shocked Bristol by leading the the woolliness of the visionary, local unemployed. into the the monotony of the egotist. cathedral.

Fow public men have been pa auch intimate terms with the first personal pronoun.

The Bishop, the Dean and the Chaptor all took his side, and demanded that the town council act. Bevin had shown hia quality 18 031 agitator. Later he told how, At this stage in his career, he used to steal in order to cat. He did so with a good conscience.

Now he turned his gifts to good use in whipping in mem- bors for the carters' branch of the 'Dockers' Union, of RNEST BEVIN was He had the personality of a

which he himself was the Arst It was the a typical self-made leader; he had a gift for or enrolled member.

a greed for beginning of a career of stendy man of the capi- ranisation and

centralised authority.

building up of trade unionism talist ern. He had

the transport workers, He was a cumming negotiator in which Bevin was associated the same gift of practical

who could always convince with

127 older and more Imagination as, in an ear- those he represented that he

polished leader, Ben Tillett, and ller generation, was pos- had got the last possible ounce sessed by Paxton, the de- out of the other side--and, at which, eventually, through an em of strikes and savage un- convey that signer of the Crystal the same time,

employment, brought into being that

detopus of industrial Palace. The only difference. chenied and oppressed!

DOBYCT, the Transport and was that Paxton's materials

To a natural pugnacity he General Workers' Union, with were less durable. On the

soon added the professional Bevin, its chief designer, hold- other hand, in Ernest truculence of the trade union ing the post of general scere- Bevin's glass-house only boss. Seeing the bulky figure, tary.

Jowl, the

the determined was allowed one man throw stones.

Bevin's path to

to

his clients were

being

frean a conference, who could.

had greatness doubt that the masters"

found their match, and maybe their muster!

was not that of the ordinary capitalist, a being whom he despised and vanquished.

his

more

the

He chose the less conven- tional route to the high places which, like many men of

he generation,

found congenial to his talents:

propaganda, way of agitation, organisation. He was a super manager of men; and men - their hopes, fears, prejudices, hates men were the rungs of the ladder. Men Bevin's

which he built. materials with

His powers of mind, by

despicable, no secondary to his intuition and No- his strength of character.

means

were

body who has ever listened to

Bevin addressing a mass meet- ing will be in doubt as to what is meant by demagogy or will ever despise so formidable and an Instrument of dangerous power.

Air vibrated

minutes so

and fury.

u

with

his

his

of While other men

and the same some ability fibre were building up com- mercial kingdoms, Bevin creating an industrial empire. At the moment of its greatest extension it contained 1,300,000 subjects OVER whom

Bevin ruled

hired the titular secretary, but in practice as an absolute despot.

09

He upset them

WHEN war came in 1939 and W dimster threatened in 1940, Bovin (who twice afied to enter Parliament) was the ob- vious choice 11 Minister of Labour is the Churchill Gov- ornment. Whoever sat in the would Minister's chair, Bevin in fact be Minister.

to be a He proved Minister of Labour, if not in all respects a good one. He put 25 millions out of a popu lation of 40 millions into work of national service, an effort of mobilisation equalled by no other country.

great

Sometimes he surprised and upset his civil servants by im- "is pulsive plunges of policy. It no bad thing for a Minister to startle his department, nor is

necessarily bad for him to disturb his Ministerial

colm leagues. Someilmes it

seemed that Bevin sought to extend his suzerainty over the whole field of production. When others resisted this, they could conveniently be denounced

seeking to sub- "anarchists" vert a natural hierarchy power,

13

of

'Stab in the back'

ERNEST BEVIN IN HIS HEYDAY

THE LONDON THEATRE:

TOOK WEST END

BY STORM

By RONALD ROPER

stumpy walk as he emerged Dockers' KC

IT was in 1020 that the world I'

the outside

trade union movement began to take note the of Bevin, the symbol of work- who intransigence ing-class

London, Apr. 5 of his one-not comedies-"The nevertheless concealed $0

Man of Destiny," The Dark HE crops up every now shrewd a sense of realities.

In 1920, at a court of inquiry

and then--the "rep" Lady of the Sormets," and "Village Wooing"-have been dociters' into

wage claims,

girl from the provinces produced by Miss Ellen Pollock Hkewise events Bevin stated the case for the ARTIME

strengthened in Bevin a who takes the West End by as "Shavings." men with, such skill, with such

The producer herself appears with storm. mastery of his brief, as well suspicion of Communis

ini roots

Red-fomented The latest star in the in the second piece as the Virgin as of legal formalities, that be its

during the thirties. became known as the Docker's strikes

strength which the others lack, KC. His argument lasted for which challenged Bevin in his making to experience the Queen and imparts to it

upholds own bailiwick. A "Communist peculiar thrill of this suc- though Griffith Jones 11 hours, spread over days, during which the

plot" was very near to that cess is 18-year-old Geraldine two roles and Karel Stepanek best with a Shavian became more and more crowd- darkest deed in the Bevin McEwan, who two years ago does his ed. The head of the court of

was odd-job girl at Windsor Napoleon. inquiry, the late Lord

Show deeply of Dunfermline,

im-

When Bevin, after the war, Repertory Theatre. Her big the lead pressed, invited Bevin to his house for a friendly talk. In became Foreign Secretary, he chance came with

was therefore amply warned in " Who Goes There!" in won 80 per-

of Commimist wiles. To his which author John Dighton the end, Bevin cent of his demands.

new high office, anti-climax of A few

he months later,

his career, he brought all his is even more rollicking than vanity in his "Happiest Days of and went with other labour leaders stubbornness

inflated and Your Life." Lloyd which nge had to see Prime Minister

Bargees' man.

THE nome of the empire was

the Transport and Gen- Workers' Union. ILS Grai dominion stretched from bar- gees to gravediggers.

mill or iron foundry.

some-

K

was

accused

three court

calendar of crime, "a stab the back,'

"

219

officials,

ת!

At the conference table, the words of one critic, she is the

1

Show and how much to the

15

at the

the

MONG the matience

first performance in which Jack Buchanan looks over lead in "King's Rhapsody" from the late Ivor Novello's under- study were those who as moure new at Golder's Green hail lost heard some of the music played in a re-filled chapel.

The fact that these compara- tive trifles are filling the thea- tre prompte one enthusiast to Dok, somewhat prematurely, will Shaw live? Of the Shavings he It was an empire of workers,

much of

their and built upon the card vote

first-night freshness is due to the readiness, to strike at the

says: "How

drop of hat, until Bevin

ebullience of Griffith Jones and shrewdly realised that,

difficult to George, to tell him that 6,000,- disappointment not yet tamed. After her West End debut on Ellen Pollocks is THERE was no coherence of times, it paid better to be con-

Vaudeville judge. But they remain 000 organised workers would

True enough, the Foreign the stage of the

took six bright as Montlay's wash."" argument, there was little ciliatory. The empire was

of the liberal

Geraldine not folerate action against Secretary was crippled by the Theatre, formal grammar, yet nobody much a part

gallery had his either by wer collapse of Soviet Russia In capitalist gystem as any cotton

government's curtain calls--the could be moment for a

or by blockade.

domestic policy. Increasing ill-kept chanting "Give us the new doubt of what the man meant.

part.

gin-and then, with applause with a Mance As he spoke,

rule

sill It led to a bitter feud be- health, too, played its Over It Bevin's

every allowance Is tinging in her ears and Alve

the When last tween the two men, for at his wristwatch every

supreme. Even when at

Foreign breathless from excitement in the that the violence

the Prime Minister

mode, his career ence he left his office to join

Herald Secretary brought him personal her dressing room, she was told of

utterance the

Lockwood and directors of the Daily ance Government, his powier ฟาง

of that Margaru: might be punctually intensified handed over 10

viceroy of concealing the fact that the disappointment, the praise

the Denis Price were outside want permanent the alr vibrated

outstanding Soviot Government had offered his Alone among the

She has got as next as any harsh, yet compelling voice, gures of the trade union money to the paper. Bevin, a dangerous approval of the Op-ing to congratulate her.

body of recent years to be the platform shook with

director, resented any imputa- position and a steady diminu movement, Bevin did not lose

con- ilon in public credit.

coming a star tion against his personal

In the overtigh speech, like passion, and the

his hold upon his people when an emanation of the speaker; he left them for other tasks. duct and did not easily forget

and

resentment. seemed to become alive

. old trade union negotiator met most demurely delightful bundi- The foundations of the em- ponderable in the hall.

street

the epokermen of a grinner of Irish mischief the West En

His Socialist tradition.

alm has welcomed since the days of end was a lifelong friend of The preseNLE of the man, pire were laid at the

corners of Bristol at the be- so fiercely dedicated

was to clothe foreign policy in Peggy O'Neil."

garroen is Ku

The role of stranded charm- full a promise that in an emer- mission, so utterly-wrapped in ginning of the century.

To Bristol Bevin had come“

the respectable......... the

His general strike sucial purpose.

achieve barmaid for whose fervour-gency he would take the Novello

Aghis the oratory he was so careful-

audience her role. The

wakched every walf from the West Country.

wig threatened in 1026, Bevin, ment ly timing, was felt by

to preside, with diplomat trifler He was borri in 1881 at Wins

over sweetheart Guardsman in a S: him gradually warm to his task. authority, as one of the outstanding La- shrinking hearer, like a physical

bald where his which at the same time lifted ford in Somerset,

negotiating events which he could not con- James's Palace apartment ad- and in a curtain speech he

to the help and sym- mother, a widow named Diana bour leaders, was

Minister Baldwin trol. In the end he lost the mirably suits Germaine's fetch- tribute

the pathy of the rest of the cast. That the heart. up

3 woman of with Prime

mosting comedy sense. the This fierce and ill-formed Mercy Bevin,

ar confidence of even when Winston Churchill

to and character, had sometimes help ved with news of a printers' loyal Conservative.

script leads the audience on

"There was a ghost on rhetoric voiced the hard

situations aboard to the point in 11-formed aspirations of Bri ed in the local hotel.

the Daily Mail stoppage I

of the impossible somehow etage for only the first scene" Beyin From a farm, where he was office. lain's proletarian uprising.

daimed later

proves no bar to highly divert- reported Aina Churke. "Ar that the sense of strades among spoke for the ugly lives, the paid fd. a week and his keep that

this brought hopeful

ing entertainment all credit to

the actors, which oven the longings to do work he hated, stunted streets, the

young peace moves to frustration and

Mr Dighton that held so much envy and Bevin run away to a job wash- precipitates the general stop- DATHER than the strangely Opposite the new girl is Nigel audience felt, disappeared and

a Bristol cafe; page,

assisted bitterness as well as so much ing plates in

muted Bevin of these dis-Patrick,

by Frances the show swing into its natural

rhythm." that was unselfish. It also ex later he became u salesman When it was over, defeated, ilusioning last years, history Rowe, Victor Adams and. An- pressed the will to power of mineral waters at 15s. & week. he thundered, defiantly that will remember the robust tri-thony Sharp. the man who saw in

those

On this pay he married his the struggle Was inovitable, bane of the longings his opportunity.

wife Florence, a Bristol girl the challenge had to be oc- bass who read the union They cepted. He would be по power, a boss must become a

whiner, no apologist.

to his

Last ounce

Bur omtory

load

UT

not, of WOS course, the only, or even the main, instrument by which Bevin sought his purpose.

of working-class stock.

of

+

General strike

WHEN

The big boss

with

Mr Buchanan, who has been

on the stage for nearly 40 years

Novello gave up other plans to

the

theh

had one daughter.

But the significant part Bevin's career did not le setting lemonade. He peddled

more explosive commodity.

of

Events and

in

gle into that of high, and ever peril,

Elizabeth Frank entirely con- firms this impression. "I con see no reason; why," she says, "with Jack Buchanan in the emtiar stalesman. And, above all, the THE late Mr. Shaw's

THE

lead, "King's. Rhapsody" shouli did disregard af probability and not continue to fill the Palace tools Minister of Labour who ambition

on wit and Theatre for another year." him more and more out of the not fall short of his country's complete reliance

his country's dramatic effect are emphasised field of purely industrial strug- expectation

at the St Martin's, where thes

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HE Liberal Party have

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as noisily) as the atom: and to be another spilt seems

LADY OF THE LEFT

going along nicely. For EVELYN Lady Megan Lloyd George has been making contact with tho Socialists-while

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The current production, how ever, is mainly, notable" for ther personal triumph of a young Wel actor Richard Burton,

the Socialist Party Mise Alice the feud that existed between the Canmona dook charge for a States, Canada, South America, too, and the reads a los fresh from his Azmerican appezu

Anglesey, and that was nemly 22 breakfast parties meeting the fat in South Kensington with a historical plays must be pre- TV pet and a view of Big Ben, pared to see Michael Redgrave years ago there

been great political Agures. periodical rumours of her switch- Her father whisked her from and her wock-end cottage at killed and resurrected" wice in

at Garrett's

A fortnight. Hall Churt, Surrey, w Mr school ng over to that panty.

the Bansteat, to a Paris finishing Honbert Morrison, whom

Hor, way of taking it cosy at

tidhne A King Richand bus vally school at 17, so that she could be Créocleth on the last week-end sirendy been murdered! onos. greatly admires, cajoled her to join him. But with him at the Versailles peace before the new passion recalled Now appearing a Hotspur in loyalty to her father, the force conference. She met the men of her to London was to put on an "King Henry IV" (PL. 1),,, kept her a Liberali, still does Versailles, the saw the treaty old skirt (she doesn't fancy her again-meets his doom

Bigat. Afterwards she had a small plumpish figure in admirers can be sure of a lively She charles the Liberals for your in India na guest of the stacks), and do what work is fedgrave on the role of Chorus her rival, Lady Violet Bon

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the old Radical But she had no of then to be

den. away from by the Torics.

mentary Labour Party.

tradition. I am a Radical, and an MP herself. Hor ambitions There should be fireworks posed of. But it seems that were wholly centred on "The Old

She was for years tho Lady Megan, on vacation at in

Commons If these she would split them asunder Man,"

closest companion, the ancestral retreat, at Cric- two women,

going, with both vice-prèaf- rather than leave them,

enjoys game of golf, cleth Caernarvon han been dents of the Liberal Party, are

him everywhere to the United. HE Strs is their deputy Loader dar entertaining the chairman of elected next time. In them

(Trollope for choice). She can ange in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning (which, over Europe. month when Mr Clem Davies Bacon, Mr. Chuter Ede, new their father, Asquith ond

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(she greeted Princess Margaret Socialist lender of the Com- Lloyd

flares anew.

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foreign 1050-61 play by a mons, Mr Tom Williams, Minis

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had not only her father's flash- there) and is often seen around critics has just voted as boat fer of Agriculture, and Mr several variants, that when

ing blue eyes, but most of his with her two Pembicheshire author).

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unumal one. At 12 he took the acteristic stabbing anger, tested afterwards that nothing she answered, "I don't know sacrifices any higher political

Welsh was her earliest lan A local JP and urban but ten was brewing it the com- what it is and I don't

is not violet ambitions she may bays. I le

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