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Benjamin Tillett

Catalogue Reference:(MOL) DK1617NG

An 1889 photograph of Benjamin Tillett. He started his working life as a seaman and later became a tea worker at the London docks. He was a self-educated man and a committed socialist and trade unionist. He founded the Tea Operatives Union and later the Dockers' Union. He died in 1943.

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