Mr Bevin, the then minister for Labour and National Service, introduced the scheme in response to an increasing shortage of labour in the coal mining industry.
Labour's fire service spokesman on the London Assembly, Navin Shah, said the increases were "truly scandalous".
Their new improved reformed reforms are, they insist, merely an evolution of New Labour's health service remedy - more choice, more competition and more private sector involvement but at a controlled pace.
For ECB chief Mario Draghi (and the Italian president Mario Monti), it means deeper, faster structural reforms to free up labour markets, deregulate service sector industries and generally rein back the role of the state.
Somerset's Labour group has said that bus service improvements will be a priority if they win the May elections.
Former Labour MP Tony Benn recalled his surprise at meeting her at the memorial service to another left winger, Eric Heffer, former Labour MP for Liverpool Walton.
Until recently, booming service firms could take on labour made idle by industry.
His academic career was interspersed with public service: as director of labour exchanges from 1909 and permanent secretary of the Ministry of Food from 1919.
Despite a tough labour market, the Higher Education Careers Service Unit says 62% have jobs six months after university and 9% are unemployed - figures similar to the year before.
It is worth recalling that, as recently as 1966, a Labour government imposed a special tax on service employment in the preposterous belief that pushing people into manufacturing would boost economic growth.
With its new defence review, Labour is set to exacerbate this inter-service rivalry.
In fighting to restore faith in Labour's ability to run the health service, Mr Brown has named a fresh team, led by Alan Johnson.
The previous Labour government had attempted to reform the civil service compensation scheme, which can result in some senior civil servants being paid more than six times their annual salary.
Supply of labour is not likely to be a problem for service sites.
He pointed out Labour had introduced local pay variations in the Courts Service, but then he adopted a rather contradictory line.
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The government says reform is necessary to safeguard the future of the NHS, but Labour claims the plans will break up the health service.
Labour has already created an Ofsted for the health service (ie, an inspectorate for hospitals), and a body to judge which treatments best combine efficacy and efficiency (ie, to help decide on rationing).
We can also expect some Labour bashing in debates on the economy, the health service and the south Wales valleys.
In the National Health Service, the government has resisted the Old Labour approach of caring only about the volume of spending rather than its efficiency.
Labour markets are tight: the unemployment rate fell to 6.4% in the three months to February, and manufacturers and service companies continue to report shortages of skilled labour.
American firms in particular have long favoured Ireland as a place to set up factories and run service facilities thanks to its well-educated labour force and low corporate-tax rate.
But the Tories are reluctant to advance this argument too vigorously, because they know it will make them vulnerable to the perennial Labour charge that they intend to privatise the National Health Service.
And he launched a counter-attack on Labour's plans to increase spending on the health service by calling for a boost to private spending on health - which is likely to ignite a fierce debate.
The posters highlight issues on which the Conservatives are convinced Labour is vulnerable, such as police numbers, the health service and teachers.
Labour's Johann Lamont returned to the topic of health service provision while Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives concentrated upon community payback orders.
Mari-anne Stanley was with Sonia Banks, 22, and her son Allan when Miss Banks went into labour on the 18:18 London Victoria to Maidstone East service on Thursday.
Plaid Health Spokesperson Elin Jones used her contribution to point to the fact that the programme of hospital service reconfiguration was not clearly outlined in the Welsh Labour party's manifesto.
Yet in reality, virtually anyone who knows anything about the way the health service is structured, both within and without, Labour-friendly or not, will tell you that there was - and still is - an urgent need for change.
Mr Johnson would need to govern competently for the remaining months of Labour's mandate, and perhaps make progress on public-service reform.
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