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...Yorkshire last week the chances did not look bright. There some 16,000 coal miners went out on an unauthorized strike over the Government's request that they work harder in return for a five-day week. In vain burly Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, pleaded with them. "This is sheer anarchy," he cried, "more than criminal at a time like this." A miner in Armthorpe summed up the long-smoldering disappointment of his fellows: "Nationalization don't make no difference. There's still the bloody boss...
Today, a small, bespectacled, inconspicuous man, he sits in a dingy office in a dingy building, hiding behind the union's figurehead president, Will Lawther. He lives quietly in suburban Kenton. His power grows. He has distributed Communists in key positions throughout his union, is now trying hard to pull members from Ernie Bevin's Transport and General Workers into his own union...
Burly Will Lawther, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, had set the tone for last week's debate: "How can you run an industry efficiently, if every miner loathes his work because of its owners; if every miner's wife swears 'her boy will not go down the pit'; if in every miner's home the pit is looked upon as an accursed thing...
...House of Commons, miner M.P. after miner M.P. rose to develop the Lawther theme. Tories who had fought the rising tide for years tried again to stem it. Laborite Hugh Dalton taunted them: "You haven't got your heart in it; there was no punch...
Equally significant was the Congress' willingness to waive a sacred trade-union right: German forced labor should be used for the rebuilding of Nazi-devastated Europe. So far, only Russia has announced its intention to use German forced labor. Exclaimed excitable Will Lawther, Mineworkers' Federation president: "It is sheer humbug ... to hail the Red Army in one breath, but in the other to say 'to hell with you' when it comes to footing the bill...