SOVIET FOR IRELAND

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 9

SOVIET FOR IRELAND

SECESSION FROM I.R.A.

COMMUNISTIC AIMS

LONDON, August 27,

The "Daily Telegraph's" Dublin correspondent says that a new development in politics promises trouble. Leading members of the Irish Republican Army have resigned from tho organisation, with a view to declaring a -workers' republic, and are already recruiting a militant citizens' army in connection with the scheme, which visualises a final struggle for power with the Blue Shirts.

The members of tlie so-called Republican Congress, which is recruiting tho citizens' army, use Communist.catchwords, although they deny that they accept all that Communism stands for in Russia, Nevertheless, their aims include tho seizure of the Government and banks, and the division of big farm* into free plots for the unemployed.. The congress is seeking recruit* among factory workers, small farmer;:, farm labourers and the unemployed. The leaders include O'Donnell, novelist and playwright; George Gilmore, who led the armed raid on Mountjoy prison and rescued 17 prisoners; Frank Ryan, editor of "An Phoblaeht," the 1.8.A. organ; and Michael Price, formerly director of training for the I.R.A.