The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-20
Famous Strike Leader is Organizing
fellow-Workmen to Fight
Foes Of Englaud; Makes
Fiery Speeches
PREACHING BLOODY
MURDER HE SAYS
Declares Capitalists and Laborers
Must Both Play the Game
in Order to Crush the
Germans
BY WILBUR s. FORREST.

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent !
London, July 2.-(By mail to New
York.)-Ben Tillett, the British per-
sonification of Mother" Jones, "Bilr'
Haywood, Charles Meyer and Samuel
Gompers, all rolled into one is organ.
izing another strike in England
Tillett has conducted hundreds OF
strikes. He's the one man who holds
British labor under his thumb. When
Ben Tillett tells British labor to strike
British labor strikes. When he told
British transport workers to strike
two years ago. British transport work
ers tied up traffic facilities of London
and practically every important indus
trial center.
Tlllett today is organizing the big
gest strike he has yet attempted. His
latest strike is against the Germans
and he is urging every union labor
man in Great Britain to get on ths
job"
I'm preaching bloody murder" said
Tillett to an enormous crowd of work
men assembled at a London indus
trial suburb. "By God, we've got to
strike and we've got to strike now.
want every ounce of British nerve
every ounce of British energy and
every ounce of British gold to get be-
hind and push. British capitalists have
got to get into the game They've got
to get rid of the idea that war is being
waged to give them profits.
I'VE want ammunition, shells; we
want gas; we want every nelliSh
death-dealing device known to man:
we want the fighting spirit. We're
going on strike against the Germans.
If we don't strike now and strike hard
there is no use striking. The CAPT
talists must strike with us. If we
don't crush the Germans tomorrow
thcre'll be no capitalists. Every man
who can't get into khaki can get into
the work shops. We're fighting Prus-
sianism: something that has been pre-
pairing to murder civilization for forty
years. Our fight must not be any kid
glove business. We've got to murder
back and murder back as hard as we
can. 1t must be slaughter for civili-
cations sake. Get busy and let's
slaughter.
And so, Ben Tillett, who before the
war hated capital like a "Bill'' Hay.
wood, fought industrial oppression
like Meyer and inflamed workmen
against both like Mother Jones,
has transferred his hate and fighting
capabilities to the Germans and is tell
ing Britirh workmen from platforms
and soap boxes to get into the game.
While Lloyd George. the new minis
ter Of munitions Is mobilizing indus
try, Tillett is mobilizing labor and to
use his own expression. he's preaching
organized bloody murder
Laborers who refused to listen to
members Of the British cabinet who
have been speaking throughout Eng
land on the need Of national defense
are listening to Tillett. TiIlett is one
Of them and they believe what he
says.
Tillett has just returned from north
ern France where he saw the German
menace. chatted with some Of the mon
who have followed him in former
strikes but who are now in khaki.
lunched with Gen. French and stud
led the situation with his own eyes.
I've learned that there is another
mean Of the word strike now Tillett
is telling his audiences In England.
Tillett. however. is telling the gov.