MR BEN TILLETT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20323, 3 February 1928, Page 9

MR BEN TILLETT

OPINION OF MR A. J. COOK.

“A MORBID MEGALOMANIAC.” (Freas Association— By Telegraph—Copyrignt j LONDON, February 1. "Mr A. J. Cook’s authority is questionable on most' things, but his unscrupulous attacks on his colleagues regarding the' industrial movement, and his lack of team loyalty are the w< rst characteristics of a morbid megalomaniac,” said Mr Ben Tillett, speaking, at Finchley. “ Mr Cook’s policy left 1,000,000 women and children without food and pleading for bread, and they are being fed only with stones and his empty slogans. The miners, like other of the unions, are gravely fighting to maintain trades unionism, which (especially the miners’ unions) lost vast numbers owir.g to the wild irrationalities of this ‘ Tin Nero.’ Mr Tillett added: “ The proposed consultative body is not a peace conference. It aims at considering the scientific reconstruction, adjustment, and modernisation of finance and commerce. It is the most important departure in British industrial history, because it is the first time that the organisation of finance and production will be considered apart from a mean wages haggle. Notwithstanding Mr Cook’s perversion of facts and hysterical denunciation of Capitalism, we have to face realities, including the fact that the capitalists and financiers are more scientifically and more securely organised than ever.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.