Word: tillett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...City as "a more effective Dictatorship than Hitler's in Germany or Mussolini's in Italy!" Warmed up by Dave Kirkwood, the Conference passed a resolution pledging the Party to oppose any return by Britain to the gold standard. Fresh cheers broke out when fiery Ben Tillett, a leading agitator in the first and only British General strike (TIME, May 10 to 24,1926), cried with obvious reference to the City: "There is an influential section of our own financial and political leaders and our British munitions magnates who in their hearts are siding with Hitler. Such...
...constituencies where the Labor candidate won two years ago because a Conservative and a Liberal candidate split each other's votes, the Labor man faced this week only a single National Government candidate and lost to him. First big Laborite to lose his seat thus was famed Ben Tillett, onetime chairman of the potent Trade Union Council...