Word: tilletts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ernie" Bevin was a callow carter's apprentice at Bristol when famed Ben Tillett, hero of the Dockers' Strike of 1889-greatest of the 19 Century in Britain-found him and took him to London to help run his. dock and transport workers' union, formed in 1911. Rough-tongued old Ben manned the hustings, but Ernie's organizing, policy-planning and negotiating made the Transport and General Workers' Union Britain's biggest, and Ernest Bevin as its tsar the most potent individual outside the Government at the start of World...