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desire to find a satisfactory perch within the movement, the bureaucrat' 's eternal divorce between rhetoric and action, and of course Tillett's sensitivity to the necessity to react to, in order to influence, movements within the rank and file.
Tillett always used left rhetoric as a means to disarm and control the members. It had no discernible impact on his practice. As early as 1892 in the Bristol strike he was thundering, "It must not finish at trade unionism. It must not finish until the workers of all grades and degrees commanded absolutely the whole machinery of the state."' A few months later he was the first union leader to use the new Board of Trade arbitration system and claiming "The unions must efficient work is the prevention vi strikes.' Tillett's advocacy of syndicalist ideas during the Great Name Address month minimum (20p unwaged) contribution from supporters.
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• Socialist Organiser no.153, November 3 1983 Page