Show NEWS THIS WEEK weeke by lemuel F parton II 11 NEW ned EW YORK big square head ed ham fisted ernest bevin czar of right wing british labor lost his first big fight at the bourner mouth conference left r of r wing as 33 the labor par british labor ty voted greater gains power representation tor for its left wing political elements mr bevin is the sam gompers of british labor opposing political activity labor theorists philosophers communists and intelligentsia ligen tsia and relying solely on the economic squeeze for tying knots in the lions 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 united front borsuch for such left wing ascendancy as that of 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 trends in american labor he is head of the powerful transport workers union a large element 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 gave britain a severe case of jitters with their paralyzing strike he was sim similarly ilaray 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 bell mr bevins n i the cat if if he gets bad case of more power and power itch mr bevin 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 opinion Is being heavily mobilized behind mr bevin lie he is from the limehouse district an expounder 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 owners for a shilling a day raise in dock wages professors at a conference showed charts proving a worker could get tat fat on the cur rent wage he stepped out and translated a days wages into bread and margerine argerine na it was a pitiful showing they won their increase MUSSOLINI M and hitler oiling up the rome berlin axis dian didn t hesitate to let ahe world know they cant lose they might ponder what happened to slip r j mr madigan madigan when he lives up to broke loose from nickname the traditional inferiority ferio 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 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 moraga 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 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 I 1 1920 1920 I 1 think it was when california beat st marys to early days 0 the college was of st marys a dingy little red Sa sad ones diOnes brick building ding in a sleazy little side street they took drub bings like that every year then came slip madigan from notre dame via oregon his hii main assets were a law degree several pink shirts and an unmatched instinct for showmanship lie 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 college got plenty of funds and moved to a nice home in the moraga valley the moraga maulers with candy colored pants this 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 fordham 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 start and they cant slow down 0 consolidated news features feature service |