BEN TILLETT HITS OUT
"FILTHY BULLYING AND COWARDLY INTIMIDATION.” Mr Bon Tillett, M.P., made an impassioned outburst at the first meeting since the dock strike of the members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, at Canning Town Mr Tillett said :—"When the history of this London dock strike is written it will be a record of filthy bullying and cowardly intimidation. Some of them would not have brains and experience and forty years of love and service. It needs more brains to prevent a strike than to organise one. As long as my health lasts I shall address these meeting and expose the bullies who have lied against me for three months and have been too cowardly to tell the truth. "During the dispute I went again and again to the Prime Minister and the Homo Secretary, and if there was any one man more than another who kept the soldiers and the armed policemen away from dockland it was old Ben Tillett. The strike was only successful in plaving the employers’ game.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11693, 4 December 1923, Page 3
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