20 AUGUST 1937, Page 6

So the dockers have got another bob. I describe the

rise thus advisedly, to put it in right relation with the famous " dockers' tanner " won after the historic strike of 1889, when the men's cause was championed by Cardinal Manning, John Burns and Ben Tillett. Manning has been dead for forty-five years, but Mr. Burns at 79 and Mr. Tillett at 77 are still active. Mr. Burns, who has an eye for effect, shows visitors to his house on Clapham Common three mementoes which he keeps, or kept, together in a wardrobe—a walking- stick given him by King Edward VII ; the scarlet gown of his honorary doctorate at, I think, Glasgow ; and the faded old straw hat in which he fought the dockers' strike.

ANUS.