Bevin, Ernest 
1881 - 1951. 
British Labour politician. 

Chief creator  of the Transport and General Workers' Union, he was its general  secretary from 1921 to 1940, when he entered the war cabinet as  minister of labour and national service. He organized the "Bevin  boys", chosen by ballot to work in the coal mines as war service, and  was foreign secretary in the Labour government 1945-51.