Benjamin Tillett (11 September 1860 – 27 January 1943) was a British socialist, trade union leader and politician. He was a leader of the "new unionism"...

From the start, it included other supportive workers, with secretary Ben Tillett working at nearby Monument Quay Warehouse. Considered part of the New...

Tillett or Tillet is a French surname that may refer to Barbara Tillett (born 1946), American librarian and library scholar Ben Tillett (1860–1943), British...

agenda. It has been used twice in the history of the labor movement. Ben Tillett was a prominent leader of the London Dock strike of 1889. He formed the...

organisers who came to prominence during the strike include Ben Tillett, John Burns, Tom Mann, Ben Cooper, Will Thorne and the seamen's leader Joseph Havelock...

unions were affiliated to the ITF: 1896: Ben Tillett 1896: Robert Peddie 1896: Tom Chambers 1904: Ben Tillett 1904: Hermann Jochade 1919: Edo Fimmen 1942:...

change than the SDF. Prominent figures such as Henry Hyde Champion, Ben Tillett, Jim Connell and George Lansbury, all left the SDF for the ILP. Initially...

the casual employment system caused Dock workers to unionise under Ben Tillett and John Burns. This led to a demand for 6d per hour (2.5p), and an end...

short form of the then more common "Ruhr District" or "Ruhr Valley": Ben Tillett, A. Creech-Jones and Samuel Warren's The Ruhr: The Report of a Deputation...

+7.2 Liberal John Cousin Horsfall 3,471 35.9 −0.4 Ind. Labour Party Ben Tillett 2,264 23.4 −6.8 Majority 465 4.8 Turnout 9,671 86.3 +2.8 Conservative...

Marx, Vladimir Lenin, George Orwell, C. L. R. James, Walter Rodney, Ben Tillett, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, and William Morris. In June 1972, three...

producing a journal, the Labour Elector, in 1888. Along with Burns and Ben Tillett, Mann was one of the leading figures in the London dock strike of 1889...

in addition to Hardie, such socialist and labour worthies as Alderman Ben Tillett, author George Bernard Shaw, and Edward Aveling, partner of Karl Marx's...

appearing alongside the likes of Henry Hyndman, Tom Mann, Eleanor Marx and Ben Tillett. He was active in supporting the Bryant and May match factory strike...

were employed by the day, were led by Ben Tillett in a struggle for the "Dockers' Tanner". Besant helped Tillett draw up the union's rules and played an...

Hennessy brandy was not unheard of. These conditions eventually spurred Ben Tillett to lead the London Dock strike of 1889. The workers asked for only a...

in as union members the striking unskilled and semiskilled workers. Ben Tillett was a prominent leader of the London Dock strike of 1889. He formed the...

in as union members the striking unskilled and semiskilled workers. Ben Tillett was a prominent leader of the London Dock strike of 1889. He formed the...

the strike in April 1911. At its peak, it had daily sales of 25,000. Ben Tillett, the dockers' leader, and other radical trade unionists were inspired...

Lieutenant General Sir Ronald Maxwell, Quartermaster-General of the BEF, and Ben Tillett, trade union leader and Founding Member of the Labour Party, at Beauquesne...

Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Henderson, and trade union activists such as Ben Tillett and Margaret Bondfield. Amid these distractions she continued to study...

Ted Howard. Visitors from England were Tom Mann in 1902 and 1908 and Ben Tillett in 1907. Robert Rivers La Monte from America was (briefly) an organiser...

By the 1880s, the casual system caused dock workers to unionise under Ben Tillett and John Burns. This led to a demand for "6d per hour" (the "Docker's...

enthusiastically by the main spokesmen of the trade union and Labour movement – Ben Tillett and Keir Hardie for example. Picket lines were organized outside the...

socialist and labour movements", grouped alongside others including Ben Tillett, Jim O’Grady, and Ramsay MacDonald. According to historian Gerrard Sables...

Flack as Young Jenny Huddlestone, Alexander Warner as Young Lord Harper, Ben Tillett as Young Latimer, Richard Plumley as Billy Huddlestone, Diana Payan as...

Workers' Union 1913–1929 Succeeded by Position abolished Preceded by Ben Tillett President of the Trades Union Congress 1929–1930 Succeeded by Arthur...

enthusiastically by the main spokesmen for the trade union and Labour movement – Ben Tillett and Keir Hardie. Picket lines were organised into shifts outside theatres...

the London dock strike began in August 1889, the trade union organiser Ben Tillett asked both John Burns and Tom Mann to join the strike committee. It was...

the New Unionist movement. With other London radicals such as Ben Tillett, Will Crooks, Ben Cooper and John Benn, Burns ('The Man with the Red Flag') helped...