[Ernest Bevin, Labour Party politician, Minister of Labour in Churchill’s wartime coalition.] Typed Letter Signed to Sir David Ross

See the entries for Bevin and Ross in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Addressed to ‘Sir David Ross, K.B.E., LL.D.’ and signed ‘Ernest Bevin’. Begins: ‘Dear Sir David, / In connection with my general plans I wish as soon as possible to make definite proposals concerning the Fair Wages Clause.’ He understands that ‘discussions between the T.U.C. and the British Employers’ Confederation have reached an advanced state’, and hopes that they may be brought to an early conclusion, ‘in order that your Committee may be in a position to make a report in the very early future’. He asks Ross to ‘communicate with both bodies with a view to an early decision being taken’. A report within a few days ‘would be of very great help’ to Bevin. The Oxford DNB states that Ross’s ‘gifts of industry, clarity, and fair-minded good sense were constantly in demand on many public bodies’, including the National Arbitration Tribunal (1941–52) and the Civil Service Arbitration Tribunal (1942–52).