Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ernest Bevin NPG D953

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Leslie Illingworth

Trade unionist and politician. A farm worker from Somerset, Bevin formed a branch of the Dockers' Union in Bristol in 1910. He worked with Tillett to form the Transport and General Workers Union, and was its first General Secretary (1921-40). A leading organiser of the General Strike in 1926, Bevin was active in negotiating a settlement. In 1937 Bevin was elected chairman of the Trades Union Congress. In 1940 he became an MP and served as Churchill's Minister of Labour and National Service. As... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.