Benjamin Tillett was a British socialist, trade union leader and politician.
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Benjamin Tillett was a British socialist, trade union leader and politician.
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Ben Tillett was a leader of the "new unionism" of 1889 that focused on organizing unskilled workers.
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Ben Tillett played a major role in founding the Dockers Union, and played a prominent role as a strike leader in dock strikes in 1911 and 1912.
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Ben Tillett enthusiastically supported the war effort in the First World War.
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Ben Tillett was pushed aside by Ernest Bevin during the consolidation that created the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1922, who gave Tillett a subordinate position.
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Ben Tillett started work in a brickyard at eight years of age and was a "Risley" boy for two years.
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Ben Tillett was invalided out of the navy and made several voyages in merchant ships.
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Ben Tillett played a prominent role as a strike leader in dock strikes in 1911 and 1912.
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Ben Tillett was instrumental in forming the National Transport Workers' Federation in 1910, along with Havelock Wilson of the Seamen's Union.
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Bevin became the General Secretary of the new union, but Ben Tillett held the post of International and Political Secretary until 1931 and retained his seat on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress until 1932.
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Ben Tillett was a member of the Fabian Society and a founding member of the Independent Labour Party, but subsequently joined the Social Democratic Federation instead.
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Ben Tillett often disagreed with the liberal tendencies of the Labour Party, claiming in 1918 that 'If the Labour Party could select a King, he would be a feminist, a Temperance crank, a Nonconformist charlatan.
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Ben Tillett courted controversy with some of his supporters in the labour movement through his outspoken support of Britain's involvement in the First World War, an issue which split the Labour Party.
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