| Show AA NEWS THIS WEEK in by lemuel F parton NEW N EW YORK big square head ed ham fisted ernest bevin czar 0 of f r right ight wing british britis la labor lost his first firs big fight at th the e bournet mouth conference left of wins wing as 33 the labor par british labor ty voted greater gains power representation ti tation tor for its left wing political elements mr bevin is the sam gompers of british labor opposing political activity labor theorists philosophers communists communist it and intelligentsia ligen tsia and relying solely on the economic squeeze lor for tying knots in the lions tall tail and on occasion he has made the lion yelp resoundingly the bournemouth Bourne mouth showdown lightly touched in american news dispatches is a victory for the 1 united front for such left wing ving ascendancy as that of 0 maj clement R attlee and sir stafford scripps it marks a potential schism in british labor and it reveals distinct similarity to nascent political and ideological I 1 ical trends in american labor he is head ot of the powerful transport workers union a large element clement of which clamored for a boycott 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 vor kers 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 ot of the coronation innocent bystanders cheer his roundhouse swings at the reds but wonder bell mr bevins the cat if he be gets bad case of more power and power itch mr bevin has an aggravated ca case se of the power itch in the present issue roughly comparable to the disagreement between john L lewis and william green conservative opinion is being heavily mobilized behind mr bevin he is from the limehouse district an expounder ol of traditional trades union doctrine such as gompers taught based chiefly on reward your friends and punish your enemies and never mind the philosophy or politics bulky moonfaced and belligerent he is not only a fighter and organizer but a clever strategist As in 1924 battling the ship o 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 wage he stepped out and translated a days wages into bread and margerine mar erine it was a pitiful showing they won their increase and hitler oiling up MUSSOLINI the rome berlin axis hesitate to let the world knew they cant lose they might ponder what happened to slip mr madigan madigan when he lives up to broke loose from the traditional inferiority Nich nickname f ferio rio rity complex of football coaches recently setting a precedent he said st marys was going to trounce california and there was no use making any bones about it then california trimmed st marys 30 to 0 since mr madigan and his galloping gaels gaeds were last seen hereabouts the bankers have grabbed old alma mater but they are still going strong a lurid spot of color on this this years football horizon it seems to be something new a top hole football outfit touring for a foreclosed college in the 16 years in which mr madigan coached the little college of mora moraga a valley california 20 miles east 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 iterated aU the football scribes referring to mr madigan who was not only coach but trainer rubber handler doctor dietitian and pants mender I 1 remember looking on in 1920 1 I think it was when california beat st marys to harly early days 0 the rg collic college e was of st marys a dingy librie little red sad C ad ones brick building in a sleazy little side street they took drub bings like that every year then came slip madigan lla digan from notre dame via oregon his 11 is main assets were a law degree several rink pink shirts and an unmatched instinct for showmanship he set the place on fire with football fervor two years later they licked california just as if ethiopia should lick italy today from then on there was no stopping them the M the th e college got plenty of f funds and s and moved to a nice home in the M moraga 0 r a g a valley the mora moraga g a maulers B 1 a ul e r s with candy colored p pants a n ts t this h is year and red silk next year pounced and devoured all over the country the financial crack up focused on slip Mad igans salary last february bondholders bond holders charged the college had turned over to him all of the receipts from the Ford fordham harn game last july the college was sold at auction but college or no college the gaels gaeds keep on galloping just a fast 16 year running starts start and they cant slow down 0 consolidated news features feature service |
