MARITIME CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 20315, 25 October 1929, Page 9

MARITIME CONFERENCE

MR TILLETT’S POSITION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. GENEVA, October 23. A plenary session of the Maritime Conference decided, by 70 votes to 22. that Mr Tien Tillett’s nomination ns the British workers' delegate was valid. The minority consisted ot ship owners. —Australian Press Association. MR TTLLET’S DENUNCIATION. LONDON, October 21. (Received October 25. at 10 a.m.) Tho Geneva correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ writes : “ The British ship owners behaved in a most cowardly, unpatriotic, and unBritish manner,” declared Mr Ben Tilled. replying to tho speakers who disputed his right to speak on behalf of tho British seamen at tho Maritime Conference. Ho added that he had been intimately’ associated with British shipping for fifty-five years ‘‘The British ship owners used to tel! the seamen and dockers to scorn the foreign yoke, but here they are scorning it by putting it on the nock of the Belgian ship owners’ delegate. They should come here themselves and fight out flmir grievances like Britishers, not cowards, which they have actually done.” Tho conference approved of Air Tillett’s credentials by 70 votes to 22. London ‘Times’ Cable.