Ben Tillett

Jim McNeill

•Born in Easton, Bristol, 1860
•Helped create the first unions for unskilled workers
•Leader of the Great London Dock Strike of 1889
•One of the founders of the Labour Party
•Co-founder of the national newspaper The Daily Herald
•Alderman of London County Council, 1892-98
•A founder of the Independent Labour Party, 1893
•Labour MP for Salford North, 1917-24 & 1929-31
•Chair of the Trades Union Congress, 1928
•Died in London, 1943

On 1st September, 2000 a Living Easton Time-Sign to Ben Tillett was unveiled in Bristol by Bill Morris, General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union.
This booklet is an expansion of the short biography written by the wonderful mural artist, Bill Guilding in August 2000.

It explores both the life of this important yet overlooked Bristol born working class figure and his vacillations and attempts to head off radical developments amongst the poorest sections of British society.

Published by Bristol Radical History Group