Why did Diane Abbott deselect a man so militant that he had to be kept in a wire cage at work? "Throughout his workshop life Roberts was blacklisted and dismissed by most of his employers. After that he was witch-hunted by Conservative newspaper proprietors and by right-wingers in the industrial and political movement. But he was a fighter: when he was attacked he counter-attacked. On one occasion his firm could not sack him as his fellow workers would have have walked out on strike. Instead, the manager built a wire cage for him on the factory floor as the only way to separate him from them." independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-ernest-roberts-1386801.html
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:33:32 +0000
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