TRADE UNIONS’ LEADER
MR. BEN TILLETT ELECTED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 12.55 p.m. LONDON, Mon. Mr. Ben Tillett has been elected chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Ben Tillett was born at Bristol in 1860 and worked in a brickyard at the age of eight. He was a “Kisley” boy for two years; served six months on a fishing smack at 12; apprenticed to a bootmaker; joined Royal Navy (invalided); after several voyages in merchant ships settled at the (Jocks and organised Dockers’ Union. He contested West Bradford, 1892 and 1895; Eccles, 1906; Swansea, 1910. For many years he was an aiderman to the London County Council. He was imprisoned at and ejected from Antwerp and Hamburg, where he had gone to help the strikers. He was one of the pioneer organisers of the General Federation of Trades, National Transport Workers’ Federation, Xational Federation of General Workers, International Transport Federation Labour Party. He visited the English, French and Belgian battlefronts; several times took the strong line and delivered thousands of lectures on the war, emphasising the need for an ample supply of munitions. He was labour M.P. for North Salford from 1917 to 1924.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 474, 2 October 1928, Page 9
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