Ernest Bevin
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish labour leader, politician, and statesman (1881-1951)
Ernest Bevin was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government.
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Bevin in 1920
Sketch of Bevin commissioned by the Ministry of Information during the Second World War
Ernest Bevin standing to the right of Winston Churchill who waves to crowds on Whitehall on VE Day, 8 May 1945, after broadcasting to the nation that the war against Germany had been won in Europe
Ernest Bevin (left) with Clement Attlee in 1945
Potsdam Conference: Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William D. Leahy, James F. Byrnes and Harry S. Truman.
Bevin at the Potsdam Conference
The British Empire and Commonwealth in 1945Politicians from United Kingdom 6
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Ernest Bevin was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government. He succeeded in maximising the British labour supply for both the armed services and domestic industrial production with a minimum of strikes and disruption.
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