Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee was born in London Borough of Wandsworth, England, United Kingdom on January 3rd, 1883 and is the Politician. At the age of 84, Clement Attlee biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early career
He became a volunteer at Haileybury House, a charitable club for working-class boys in Stepney, London's East End, in 1906, and from 1907 to 1909, he served as the club's manager. His political views had been more conservative before that. However, after his surprise at the poverty and deprivation he witnessed while working with the slum children, he came to the conclusion that no private charity could be able to eliminate hunger, and that only concrete action and income redistribution by the state will have any effect. This caused him to convert to socialism, which prompted him to abandon his faith in favour of liberalism. He joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1908 and became active in local politics. In 1909, he failed in his first election as an ILP candidate for Stepney Borough Council.
He served as a secretary for Beatrice Webb for a brief period of time before becoming a secretary for Toynbee Hall. He worked with Webb's promotion of the Minority Report while being very involved in Fabian Society circles, in which he will go round visiting many political parties—Liberal, Centrist, and socialist—to explain and popularize the theories, as well as recruiting lecturers who were deemed suitable to work on the campaign. He was employed by the government in 1911 as a "official explainer," inciting the nation to alert Chancellor David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act. At public meetings, he spent the summer of that year touring Essex and Somerset on a bicycle, demonstrating the Act. He became a lecturer at the London School of Economics, teaching Social science and Public administration a year later.
Early political career
In the immediate post-war period, Attlee returned to local politics, becoming mayor of Stepney, one of London's most impoverished inner-city boroughs, in 1919. During his tenure as mayor, the council took steps to combat slum landlords who owed high rents but refused to invest extra to keep their house in habitable shape. The council met and enforced court orders for homeowners to restore their property. In addition, health visitors and sanitary inspectors, lowering the infant mortality rate, were employed by the organization, which also attempted to find jobs for returning unemployed ex-servicemen.
In 1920, as mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which lay out many of the principles that inspired his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years. The book criticized the belief that looking after the homeless could be left to voluntary intervention.He wrote on page 30:
and went on to say at page 75:
The Poplar Rates Rebellion, directed by George Lansbury, the Labour mayor of Poplar and a potential Labour Party leader, began in 1921, a movement of rebellion aimed at equalizing the poor relief burden in all the London boroughs. Attlee, a personal friend of Lansbury, has a strong support for this. However, Herbert Morrison, the Labour mayor of Hackney and one of the main figures in the London Labour Party, has condemn Lansbury and the rebellion. Attlee also developed a lifelong dislike of Morrison during this period.
Attlee became the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Limehouse in Stepney at 1922 general election (MP). He admired Ramsay MacDonald and helped him win the 1922 leadership race. During the brief 1922 parliament, he served as MacDonald's Private Secretary. In 1924, when he served as Under-Secretary of State for War in the short-lived first Labour government led by MacDonald, he got his first glimpse of ministerial service.
The 1926 General Strike was a bitter disappointment, who believed that strike action could not be used as a political weapon. However, when it occurred, he did not attempt to destroy it. He was chairman of the Stepney Borough Electricity Committee at the time of the attack. He negotiated an agreement with the Electrical Trade Union so that hospitals would continue to supply electricity to hospitals but that factories would be shut down. Scammell and Nephew Ltd, one of the group's other Labour members, took civil action against Attlee and the other members of the committee (but not against the Conservative members who had also supported this). Attlee and his fellow councillors were sentenced to £300 in court, and they were ordered to pay £300. The decision was later reversed on appeal, but Attlee's financial challenges led by the scandal almost forced him out of politics.
A royal commission was established in 1927 to look at the possibility of granting self-rule to India. He had to commit to the commission at the time he was supposed to serve, but unlike a promise MacDonald made to Attlee to compel him to serve on the commission, he was not given a ministerial position in the Second Labour Government, which took office after the 1929 general election. Attlee's service on the Commission provided him with a broad insight into India and several of the country's political figures. By 1933, he had argued that British rule was new to India and that he was unable to make the social and economic reforms that were needed for India's progress. He became the British king most sympathetic to Indian nationalism (as a domination), preparing him for his role in 1947's decision on independence.
Oswald Mosley, a Labour MP, left the party after its rejection of his plans for solving the unemployment crisis in May 1930, and Attlee was given Mosley's post as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in May 1930. He became Postmaster General in March 1931, a post he held for five months until August, when the Labour government failed to decide on how to cope with the Great Depression's financial crisis. MacDonald and a few of his allies formed a National Government with the Conservatives and Liberals in May, leading to their dismissal from Labour. MacDonald offered Attlee a career in the National Government but he turned down the offer and opted to remain loyal to the main Labour party.
Labour was deeply divided after Ramsay MacDonald joined the National Government. Attlee had long been close to MacDonald and now feels betrayed, as had the majority of Labour politicians. Attlee had grown disillusioned with MacDonald, whom he came to regard as vain and incompetent, and of whom he later wrote scathingly in his autobiography.