FREE FIGHT AT POPLAR.
BEN TILLET'S THREAT. Tho executive of the Dockers' Union embracing Liverpool, Scotland ami Ireland, has decided not to strike. A free took place at Poplar, whero the strike-breakers who were in the majority, resented the pickets' action, an-d attacked thorn. Mr Ben Tillett, speaking at Tower Hill, said :—" The employers want the Government to turn out tho soldiery to shoot you. The Tories are demanding your children's blood. If our men are going to be murdered I am going to shoot Lord r>evonport 3 who is responsible for tho strike."
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14380, 13 June 1912, Page 7
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