COVENT GARDEN
REAL STRUGGLE TO COME
TILLETT'S ADDRESS TO
STRIKERS
HALF A MILLION MEN BEHIND THEM. ' *
(UNITED PREUS ASSOCIATION.^-COPYRIGHT.) (REUTERS I'ELEGIUM.)
(Received 27th August, 10 a.m.) .•■■■• • '■,-LONDON, 26th August. ,Most of the pickets were Withdrawn from Covent Garden to-day, but few. of the porters. resumed work. Miv Ben Tillett, addressing the 'strikers, said there were half "a, million'-'men'behind them, and the real fight would begin after the first month. He appealed to the employers to be sportsmen. The strikers, he said, did not want to use force,-but he warned the employers against utilising, the police ; if'force was employed against the strikers their leaders would act accordingly. He ridiculed the .idea^of marketing produce- by aeroplane. \ _ i'■■■".
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 50, 27 August 1924, Page 5
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115COVENT GARDEN Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 50, 27 August 1924, Page 5
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