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Show jt A A A A A AAAA A AAA AAA A AAA AAA I VHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton YTVYTVTYTY VTTVTTVTTYYTYT NEW YORK. Big, square-headed, ham-fisted Ernest Bevin, czar of right wing British labor, lost his first big fight at the Bourne-mouth Bourne-mouth conference Left Wing of as the Labor par. British Labor ty voted greater Gains Power representation for its left wing political politi-cal elements. Mr. Bevin is the Sam Gompers of British labor, opposing political activity, labor theorists, philosophers, communists and intelligentsia, intel-ligentsia, and relying solely on the economic squeeze for tying knots in the lion's tail and on occasion he has made the lion yelp resoundingly. The Bournemouth showdovm, lightly touched in American news dispatches, is a victory for the "united front," for such left wing ascendancy as that of Maj. Clement R. Attlee and Sir Stafford Scripps; it marks a potential schism in British Brit-ish labor and it reveals distinct similarity sim-ilarity to nascent political and "ideological" "ide-ological" trends in American labor. He is head of the powerful Transport Trans-port Workers' union, a large element ele-ment of which clamored for a boycott boy-cott against Japanese goods and threatened to refuse to handle them. England notes all this with acute memories of 1926, when Mr. Bevin and his dock workers gave Britain a severe case of .jitters with their paralyzing strike. He was similarly obdurate when he pulled the big London bus strike at the time of the coronation. Innocent bystanders cheer his roundhouse swings at the reds, but . , wonder who'll bell Mr. Bevm s tne cat ;f he gets Bad Case of more power and Power Itch Mr" Bev7" has an aggravated case of the power itch. In the present issue roughly comparable to the disagreement between John L. Lewis and William Green conservative conserv-ative opinion is being heavily mobilized mo-bilized behind Mr. Bevin. He is from the Limehouse district, dis-trict, an expounder of traditional trades-union doctrine, such as Gompers Gom-pers taught, based chicf.y on "Reward "Re-ward your friends and punish your enemies," and never mind the philosophy phi-losophy or politics. Bulky, moonfaced moon-faced and belligerent, he is not only a fighter and organizer, but a clever strategist. As in 1924, battling the ship-owners for a shilling a day raise in dock wages. Professors at a conference showed charts proving a worker could get fat on the current cur-rent wage. lie stepped out and translated a day's wages into bread and margcrine. It was a pitiful showing. They won their increase. MUSSOLINI and Hitler, oiling up the Rome-Berlin axis, didn't hesitate to let the world know they can't lose. They might ponder what j ,. happened to Slip Mr. radigan r.I;la;3 whon he Lives Up to broke loose from Nickname iho traditional in-feriority in-feriority complex of football coaches. Recently, setting set-ting a precedent, he said St. Mary's was going to trounce California and there was no use making any bones about it Then California trimmed St. Mary's, 30 to 0. Since Mr. Madigan and his "Galloping "Gal-loping Gaels" were last seen hereabouts, here-abouts, the bankers have grabbed old alma mater, but they are still going strong, a lurid spot of color on this year's football horizon. It seems to be something new a top-hole top-hole football outfit touring for a foreclosed fore-closed college. In the 16 years in which Mr. Madigan Madi-gan coached the little college of Moraga valley, California, 20 miles cast of Oakland, he pulled it up from a dejected little hangnail squad to a roving, ravening band of man-eaters. "The Mad Magician of Moraga," alliterated the football scribes, referring to Mr. Madigan, who was not only coach, but trainer, rubber, handler, doctor, dietitian and pants mender. I remember looking on, in 1920, I think it was, when California beat r i r, St. Mary's, 120 to Early Days Q yUe cooj.e wm of St. Mary's a dingy little rod Sad Ones bvick building in a sleazy little side street. They took drubbings like that every year. Then came Slip Madigan. from Notre Dame, via Oregon. His main assets were a law degree, several pink shirts nnd un unmatched instinct in-stinct for showmanship. He set the place on tire with football fervor. Two years later, they licked California, Cali-fornia, just as if Ethiopia should lick Italy today. From thou on. there was no stopping thorn. The college got plenty of funds and moved to n nice home in the Moraga valley. The "Moi-aga Maulers," with candy-colored pants this year and rod silk next year, pounced and devoured nil over the country. The financial crack-up focused on Slip M.nlii:an's salary. Last February, Febru-ary, bondholders charged the col-loite col-loite h:id turned over to him all of (ho $:i!l.:t2l.l.'i receipts front the Fordham game. Last July, the col-lego col-lego was sold at unction. vul, college col-lege or no college, the llacls Keep oiv galloping. Just a fast, 16 year nmninij sUrt, nnd they can't slow down. (.'imeollil Hp,! Npws 1-enhiirft. U N II vl. p. |