Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, P.C M.P, achieved fame as the "Dockers K.C" in the years filled with labour troubles that succeeded WW1. He was born in 1884 in a Somersetshire village and went to work for a farmer at the age of eleven. Then he went to Bristol, where he organised the road transport workers, the first step in the career which was to give him the all powerful position of General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union. For years he had been one of the chiefs Of the Trade Union movement, and he was not even an M.P when Churchill appointed him Minister of Labour in his "Win the War" Cabinet. Wandsworth Central, however, soon gave him the right to answer questions from the Treasury Bench.
