DUBLIN STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 5

DUBLIN STRIKE.

A NATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE. TO DISCUSS THE POSITION. I.AKKIN'S VIOLENT SPEECHES. (By Cable.—rrcss Association.—Copyright) (Received 11.50 a.m.'; LONDON, November £0. Tlie National Labour Commit lee endorses the Parliamentary Committee's action in fixing the special congress to consider the Dublin dispute on December Oth, Thpy explain the apparent delay by n desire to secure the rank and tile's voice in the situation. The Transporters' Union's members who are employed in the Dublin corporation fruit am! vegetable markets refused to Plignge in a sympathetic strike. They declared that they had no gripvnn.v, their lowest vvagps being -A/ and 2li. a week. i.iirlcin. at the Albert Tlall. said that .Mr Augustine Birrcil (Chief Secretary for Ireland) was an idlor. a losifer, anil a tricki-ter, mid should Ik- ehlSuVd out Hip l/i.'k. The Literals were humbug:, and unctuous hyjioi'iitO". Wlii-n the ' nuH-Viiig hcanl the Trade I'nion leaders had deferrei! the National fonferenee until !>th Deeprnbor :•- storm oi hiswing and booing swept the hall, and the proceedings were suependeil for live minutes until the rage of the nudipiiee waa (.[x-nt. Larki.i called Sir K. 1!. Carson "that cadaverous lawyer who took ill at a psychological moment." Jle described the Irish Press as thfl most vicious and intolerant and stupid that any country was ever cursed with. y.v George Lunsburv (ex-Labour M.l*. lor Bow and Browleyl. who presided. asked the meeting not to forget that thousands of British Indians in South Africa were beinp brutally lushed and shot to death. This treatment of innocent pubjeets was a ghastly parody <>f our civilisation. Referring to the Dublin strike, he said that the I.ilwral (iovernmerit was composed of a lot of buir.es trying to crush thp weak. Lord Aberdeen iLord-Lieutenant o: Ireland) was only the weak too! of the capitalist class.

Larkin hotly attacked the (lovornnient. He said there was a time, when Mr Asquith and Mr Lloyd Cleorge had human hearts and had not become stones and forgotten the people had tlie right to live.