Not perhaps the best of time to be setting the record straight on Bob Crow, but to set it in some sort of historical context, listed below are some of the trades unionists that I believe earned the description of being 'great'. I am afraid Bob Crow does not make the list, nor even the second list of great (British) trades unionists. So in no particular order:-
Bill Morris, Ben Tillett, Jack Jones, Jack Dash, Jimmy Airlee, David Basnett, Hugh Scanlon, Rodney Bickerstaff, Tom Mann, Clive Jenkins, Gavin Laird and the giant amongst them all Ernest Bevin.