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Show 1KITISH LABOR PERSONALITIES Britain's Labor party which swept :hurch.ll out of office is a strange nixture, resembles the liberal )ranch of the Democratic party nore than any Socialist movement, t has its liberal and its conserva-ive conserva-ive w.ngs, has had no labor Toubles similar to ours during the past decade. Clement Attlee. Britain's new prime minister, is a poor man. . . . 3e was little known among the fash-onable fash-onable people of England until 1935 hen his salary was raised to 2,000 pounds a year. . . . After getting his pay boost, Mrs. Attlee was able :o venture into society for the first ime, was able to start playing golf, lire enough help to keep her home going. . . . Attlee likes to putter in lis garden, do odd jobs around the louse, constantly puffs a pipe, is a sharp contrast to fiery, charmirig Ramsey MacDonald, England's last Labor prime minister. . . . Att-,ee Att-,ee is no forthright leader, Is :onsidered more of an impartial middle man, will have all he can io to keep peace within his own widely split party. Attlee's greatest rivals for power nside the party are paunchy, jovial Herbert Morrison and hard-headed, ietp-voiced. testy Ernest Bevin. . . . .Morrison lost his right eye when le was three days old, has had a "lcftish" outlook ever since. . . . Morrison has played runner-up to Attlee in many elections, carries on constant behind-the-scenes warfare with Bevin. . . . Bevin had the same war job which Sidney Hillman took Dver in the OPM after Pearl Harborhandling Har-borhandling labor relations. However, How-ever, Bevin made a better go of it, fought grimly and successfully for better rations for workers. . . . Morrison Mor-rison is a cockney, has a spry sense pf humor, likes to dance, is head of the Labor party in politically potent London. He is also a man of daring, lad the ancient tradition-encrusted Waterloo bridge torn down because he found it unserviceable, afterward had traffic rolling more smoothly through the center of London. . . . Morrison Is a hard ruler. Bevin I'nion Boss. Ernie Bevin is a hard-headed union boss. ... He hates dictatorships dictator-ships but is a dictator in his own union, the giant transport workers. ... Bevin runs his own union like John L. Lewis runs the mine workers. work-ers. . . . Outside his union, however, Bevin's labor practices are more like those of Sidney Hillman and Phillip Murray. . . '. He believes In negotiation rather than strikes. Bevin took a bad trouncing from Winston Churchill in 1920, has never forgiven the ex-prime minister. It was Bevin who called the 1926 general gen-eral strike in England, a strike which Churchill dealt a shattering blow. . . Bevin is a forthright anti-Fascist, anti-Fascist, was against Hitler, Mussolini Musso-lini and the Cliveden set from their Inception, was responsible for the lough - minded position his party look internationally from 1933 to the outbreak of war. . As leader of the transport workers, Bevin controls con-trols considerable of the Labor party, is rough on his enemies, gruff with his friends, losses his patience trequently. To get feminine support, the new labor government will lean heavily on a red-headed fiery labor M.P., Ellen El-len Wilkinson. Miss Wilkinson is at home in a fight, knows the world, has contempt for Britain's colonial policies, is a scrapper from the word go. . . . She knows about riots and bloodshed first hand, was in the thick of the black and tan trouble in Ireland, even led hunger marchers on London during the depression. de-pression. . . Miss Wilkinson lives in the Bohemian Bloomsbury section sec-tion of London surrounded by poets painters, actors and writers; has persuaded many of them to pitch into labor's fight. . . . Bhmt and forthright, Miss Wilkinson was the first member of parliament to de-end de-end King Edward's marrying American-born Wallis Simpson. in one speech she said. "We say that 8 woman is good enough to be a -anS wife she is good enough to take her side by him as his equal in whatever rank of life intended." npt"0'!1.? PWertoJ ure in the new Attlee government will be ta". sparse hard-headed Arthur 'IT gently minister of postwar reconstruction. lZT W3S sponsible tor "ha. : Htt le sIu, ele.r.nce the Ma r,.,nald government under- li s cV,.' A,rm"mher Church- 8 blnet- Greenwood never as known as a radical or a C N.w CDAPITAL CHAFF Nel on Rockefeller recently asked tVSffSTL"1 CordeU "ull is a biM r ,USed l see him-l"gelv him-l"gelv navcrt . Rockeft'ller who -ot!er,n."0wPeofDr0"d'' McLean-whom McLean-whom the Scrmn, u b Rt'ynlds h-e been ZlTJ0?"' Ply for new I"?' " makitlS I man cabine f the T- invei8 ed ' them hve room. 8 d nt0 h" drawing |