"TIN NERO."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 7

"TIN NERO."

TILLETT ON COOK. Characteristics Of A "Morbid Megalomaniac." BEAUTIES TO BE FACED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON", February 1. '"Mr. A. J. Cook's authority is questionable on most things, hut his unscrupulous attacks on his colleagues regarding the industrial movement, and his lack of team loyalty, are the worst characteristics of a morbid megalomaniac," said Mr. Ben Tillett, speaking at Finchley.

"Mr. Cook's policy left a million women and children foodless and pleading for bread, and being fed only with >t«nes and his empty slogans. The miners, like the remainder of the trade unions, were bravely fighting to maintain trades unionism. The miners' unions' lost vast numbers, owing to the wild irrationalities of this tin Nero."

Mr. Tillett added: "The proposed consultative body is not a peace conference. It aims at considering the scientific reconstruction and adjustment and modernisation of finance and commerce. It is the most important departure in British industrial history, because it is the first time the organisation of finance and production will be considered apart from a mean w?ges happle. Notwithstanding Mr. Cook's perversion of the facts and his hysterical denunciation of capitalism, we have to face realities, including the fact that capitalists and financiers are more scientifically and more securely organised than ever."—(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")