Show LABOR LEADER I CONTROLS FOOD J. J R. R Clynes Is Well Vell Known in Union Circle of United States London Aug 24 ack 4 Jack Clynes as J. J R. R Clynes England's new food tood controller controller con con- as called b by old comrades Is well known In th the United States where he has represented the British labor party at various international conferences confer conter- By birth and work he Is a man manof manof manor of or tho the people Lord Lor Rhondda his predecessor predecessor predecessor pred pred- was a grocers grocer's son CInes Clynes Is tho the son of ot a laborer He Is a n. slight rather undersized looking delicate man of ot 49 9 His Ills frail physique Is probably the heritage ge of hard 1 labor In boyhood boho for tor he began at the a ago age e of ot 10 In an Oldham mill Out of ot his meager savings sa he ho paid for tor a R course In a night school and it itIs itis Is 19 told toM of or him that once ho he was on the point of ot being discharged b by his mill boss for being burled In an English English English Eng Eng- lish grammar while at work When still In his te ns a press biographer relates he bought a second hand 1 dictionary die die- and spent several se months coping copyIng copy cop Ing It from tram be beginning ng to end In this way he acquired the vocabulary which I ho lie used with remarkable precision in hiD hla public speeches The Tho books he studied were the tho works work's of ot economists philosophers poets and dramatists Carlyle Carlle Hill Hili Shakespeare and the Bible Biblo were vere his chief chic delight ht He lie became known as ns a 3 aboy boy bo orator A friend i relates elates this Incident Incident Clynes and an Irishman use used 1 to go to together to tho the lon of ot a spacious quarry rude and n wind haunted and there therO practice upon each Mch other tao art of ot pu public bUc speaking At 22 Clynes nei was the organizer for tor forthe forthe the thc Lancashire district of at tho the general general gen gen- en- en eral cr workers workers' union and his success was such that he made n a name In the tho labor world worl 1 For a lon long period he lIe has been tho the president of ot the tho National Union of ot General l Workers and chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of at the tho National Federation of ot Laborers Laborers' Unions which represents workers lie He has represented British labor Interests In Canada Fra Fiance ce Germany German lI Holland and other I coun countries tries He lie was elected to parliament from froma a Manchester district In 1906 and four years ears later he b became ame vice ic chairman of cC the labor part party partIn In the hO of at com corn secretary sec sec- cC- cC mons Appointed I l parliamentary to the tho ministry of or food a year ear ago he at once won the tho res respect and confidence of or the controller r and became bo- bo came Lord Rhondda's chief lieutenant lieuten lieuten- ant nut I antA A writer In the Observer r er speake 0 of of- Intellectual CInes Clynes at nt British labors labor's r lamplighter r. r |