Th e preservation of workingclass organization in Britain meant that the labor movement was, from the beginning, aware of its strength and able to set some conditions for its cooperation in the prosecution of the war” … Under the war government of Lloyd George, Labour MP Arthur Henderson joined the War Cabinet. John Hodge, the secretary of the Steel Smelters, and George Barnes, the former secretary of the Amalgamated Engineers, took the new posts of minister of labour and minister of pensions, respectively.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1653