“COWARDLY, UNBRITISH”
BEN TILLETT ATTACKS SHIPOWNERS MARITIME CONFERENCE (United P.A..—By Telegraph — Copyright) Times Cable. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Thurs. The Maritime Conference, at a plenary session, decided by 70 votes to 22 that the nomination by British workers of Mr. Ben Tillett, M.P., as their delegate was valid. The minority consisted of the British shipowners’ representatives. “The British shipowners have behaved in a most cowardly, unpatriotic and un-British manner,” declared Mr. Tillett, replying to speakers who disputed his right to speak on behalf of the British seamen at the conference. He added that he had been intimately associated with British shipping for 55 years. The British shipowners used to tell old seamen and dockers to scorn the foreign yoke. “But here they are scorning it by putting it on the neck of the Belgian shipowners’ delegate. They should have come here themselves and fought out their grievances like Britons and not as cowards, which is what they have actually done.” The conference approved Mr. Tillett’s credentials by 70 votes to 22.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 11
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