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Five years ago when the British Labor Party was younger, louder and relatively impotent, Britain's Trades Union Congress met in annual convention. Red flags were much in evidence, Communists were greeted enthusiastically. British Laborites presented a gold watch to Moscow's Tomsky. And little lean Ben Tillett, one of the founders of the Labor Party, made a speech which, according to one observer "was so violent, frantic and ruthless in his call for a revolution that many persons in the audience drifted away startled and horrified...
...Turner received the rousing cheer to which he was entitled as retiring Chairman of the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress. Hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett was then elected Chairman...
...Grace the Duke of Northumberland has good reason to remember that Benjamin ("Ben") Tillett once said: "So Percy* don't approve of the dole,? don't he? Why his dole for doing nothing is £20,000 ($97,200) a week...
...Tillett, originally a bricklayer, progressed through shoemaking and sailoring to become General Secretary of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union, from its inception in 1887 until 1922. Latterly, as a Member of Parliament and lecturer, he has twice toured the Empire, and repeatedly visited the U. S. and Soviet Russia. The title of his favorite lecture, Christ and Labor! might be called the slogan wherewith hard-bitten "Ben" Tillett has sold himself to pious toilers' everywhere...
...received a letter from Charles W. Tillett, a political commentator of Charlotte, who wrote: "I have said many good things concerning you and I wish to determine, after seeing you, whether I can, like the Queen of Sheba, say the half has not been told, or whether I must repeat what Uncle Eph said to me the other day when I got after him about an extravagant statement he had made: 'Boss, I jest over-spoke myself.' " Candidate Smith wired back: "Will be delighted to see you . . . in the matter of Queen of Sheba versus Uncle...