THE NEW CABINET

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 7

THE NEW CABINET

LABOUR MEMBERS AND THEIR CAREERS.

Following are details, additional to those already published, of the careers of of Britain's first Labour Cabinet:—

Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Parliamentary Secretary for Health, member lor Nelson and Colne, Lancashire, since 1922, has long been connected with Workers' educational matters. In December, 1922, he exposed in Parliament the wastefulness of unemployment. His work for Labour commenced many years ago when, as a young man of 20, he edited, a Labour journal at Leeds. He ia now secretary of the Joint Research and Information Department of the Trades Union General Council and Labour Party executive. He was also secretary of the Labour Commission which investigated the state of Ireland several years ago. Miss Margaret ■ Bondfield, Parliamentary Secretary for Labour, who has only just secured a seat in the House of Commons, representing Northampton, is secretary of the Women Workers' Section of the General Workers' Union. She is the first woman chairman of the Trades Union Congress. In addiution to giving support to Labour she is a prominent Feminist. She captured the Northampton seat from the Conservative candidate by a majority of 4036, the sitting Liberal member (Mr. 0. A. M'Curdy) being third. Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, Parliamentary Secretary for Mines, member for Linlithgow, first elected in, 1922, has been for many, years in the forefront of ad-

vanced Labour activities in Scotland. He is the only Jew on the Labour benches, and is still only 37 years of age. He is a member of tho Parliamentary Executive of his party, and is one of the \variest debaters in tha House. \ MiV William Lunn (in yesterday's cable message> referred to as Dunn), Parliamentary Secretary of Overseas Trade, was the Labour Party's whip in the last Parliament. He worked in the pits when only 12 years old, and'has for years beeii an active member of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, having, been in office ever since he was 18 years of age. He unsuccessfully contested the Holrafirth by-election in 1912, but. was returned for the Eothwell division of the West : Riding of Yorkshire in 1918, which seat he has since- retained Mr. Harry-Gosling,- Minister of Transport, was born in 1861. He worked foryears with his father in the trade of lighterman as waterman on the Thames, a calling which he followed until 1893, when he became an official of the Society of Watermen, Lightermen, and Bargemen. He was at the head of a great transport strike in 1911, and sat as member of the Court of Inquiry, which worked ■ a national settlement W 1920. Except for a short break he has been continuously an Alderman or Councillor of the London County Council for twenty-six years. He is now leader of the Labour Party in that body. He stood for the London electorate of Kennmgton in 1922, but was rejected at a by-election. Last February he was returned for the Labour seat of Whitechapel, and was again-returned in December lor the same electorate AHm^H tMk Hod^> Civil Lord of the Admiralty was successful in December in capturing the Lichfield seat from the Libeid,ls, .securing a Labour majority of fu;;- ?II one of the most stable additions to the new House, being secretary of the Miners' Federation! He will strengthen .that alreacly powerful phalanx of the Labour Part/