MR. BEN TILLET AGAIN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 259, 5 October 1912, Page 3

MR. BEN TILLET AGAIN.

VIOLENT ABUSE GF LORD DEVENPORT. Speaking at a labour meeting at Aberavon on Sunday, August 18th. Air. Ben Tiileit delivered his first address out of London since the dockers’ strike ended. Dealing with the London dock strike and iis lesson, he said that he bad had twelve hard weeks of it. harder than had been apparent, because tne capitalist papers did not always want to speak the truth. It woulu lie an accident if they did, and < hr: editors would have dropped down dead. If they did not amp ilo.-.-i dead they would "get the --.-.ek. they wire paid to In, fulminate, a-u insult. He did nut care what ’lie papers said. If he had champagne it was only what he deserved. H .■some of his class took to champagne it would be better for them than oeer, and by cultivating the champagne habit they might think it time , o insist on better wages. The capitalist class said to iuni, "There i.s the devil who has robbed us < i three anil half millions of money.” ll<* had robbed them of more thin that really, but they could not count it. There had been a row because lie had been to Frascati's, and a row because of a prayei tor Lord Det.riport. He had been to Frascati's. He had gone Lv invitation, and lit would go again. He did not feel very well at the time, and he had j plate of soup and a gla-* of champagne. Flail he known there w r-> going to be all. that fuss he won! I nave had a 4'bust up.” It was true that he wished God t<> take Lord Devonport to Heaven. In Lontfon there were 200,000 little children wanting food, and loO.Ol'O mothers had sold and pawn ; ‘>i everything, even to their v.eddiag rings. After describing the distress that existed, Air. Tillett exclaimed: — I curse Lord Devonport and the thieves, murderers, scamps and scoundrels of bis class. I would shoot him on sight, because I hate him and his class. He must be a namby-pamby sort of person to please Lord Devonport, the bacon merchant, the superannuated groe■r. He would get his bacon cooked m the place where he would go to. He had been charitable when lie had wished Lord Devonport would go to Heaven. ’That was not, perhaps, what Lord Devonport would wish

Rcfni n r to tin 1 (Od )' r 1 1 uujiOrted into London during rhe Alike. Mr. lillett alleged that, (<u > r it in the cm i f the in 11 lhev consisted of loafer:-. gaolbirds, anil pot-walloners. Dcsp-re the tact that manv of them were umed. and manv were guiltv rj bestial conduct, the had none nothing to them. When he anil Lis friends han gone to see Cabinet V i ti ti< dmit I il it ti d no pi ti mi the < i all lhere were too manv unions amongst the men. lhev should organise «lrc< te 1 md mi ii i it po ii i H Hi ti I r I Imu i 1 itn iil i n nt in t ii+ c < i mt h 1 ’ (1 h k II e hi itt ci im ( 1 tit ae was out to tan the flame of p.as tnsi tit till 1 in ti ini better things. It he said to the men Arm Miurselves it would l>e sedition and treason, but with Bonn; Law and Carson it was uincrent.