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Show KA I Afi DREW PEARSON Mm ZL i- u, k - . m JRITISH LABOR PERSONALITIES Britain's Labor party which swept Churchill out of office is a strange nixture, resembles the liberal jranch of the Democratic party nore than any Socialist movement. !t has its liberal and its conserva-ive conserva-ive wings, has had no labor xoubles similar to ours during the past decade. Clement Attlee, Britain's new prime minister, is a poor man. . . . He was little known among the fash-onable fash-onable people of England until 1935 when his salary was raised to 2.000 pounds a year. . . . After getting, iiis pay boost, Mrs. Attlee was able :o venture into society for the first Jme, was able to start playing golf, lire enough help to keep her home going. . . . Attlee likes to putter in 3is garden, do odd jobs around the Souse, constantly puffs a pipe, is a sharp contrast to fiery, charming 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 Inside the party are paunchy, jovial Herbert Morrison and hard-headed, Jeep-voiced, testy Ernest Bevin. . . . Morrison lost his right eye when ae was three days old, has had a "leftish" 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 pver in the OPM after Pearl Harbor Har-bor handling 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 salso a man of daring, pad 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 Union 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 1926, 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 took 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 frequently. 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. . . . Blunt and forthright. Miss Wilkinson was the first member of parliament to defend de-fend King Edward's marrying American-born Wallis Simpson. ... In one speech she said. "We say that ! if a woman is good enough to be a j man's wife, she is good enough to take her side by him as his equal in whatever rank of life intended." Another powerful figure In the new Attlee government will be tall, sparse hard-headed Arthur Greenwood, recently minister of postwar reconstruction. . . . Greenwood was responsible for what little slum clearance the MacDonald government undertook. under-took. ... A member of Churchill's Church-ill's cabinet, Greenwood never was known as a radical or a great liberal, is a seasoned bureaucrat, bu-reaucrat, knows his way around government, is an able talker. CAPITAL CHAFF C Nelson Rockefeller "recently asked for an appointment with Cordcll Hull, but Hull refused to see him. Hull is a bitter-ender regarding Ar-j Ar-j gentina, and it was Rockefeller who largely paved the way for Argen-' Argen-' tine recognition. C. Mrs. "Hope Diamond" McLean, mother-in-law of Sen. Bob Reynolds whom the Scripps Howard papers have been exposing, ' is making a play for new members of the Truman Tru-man cabinet Some of them have been inveigled into her drawing room. |