BLUE SHIRTS LEADER

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1933, Page 7

BLUE SHIRTS LEADER

NEW PARLIAMENT SCHEME GROUP REPRESENTATION [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, August 11. Disclaiming his alleged desire for a dictatorship General O’Duffy, . promoter of the National Guard, said: “I want to change the present system to one of most, Democratic Parliamentary representation, by which the parties and the constituencies will be abolished, and by which the representaton will be by Agriculture, Science, Labour, Education, and other vocations.”

General O’Duffy explained that every parish would have a National Guard unit, with a Committee of Officers, which would group with other Parish Commitees, until it produced a Council of one hundred members, representing various vocations. Such Council would then elect an executive, which would be represented in the Dail Eireann, thus they would get government by experts, and then no group would be permitted to introduce legislation except concerning its own vocation. General O’Duffy' said he hoped to get one hundred thousand young men to assist in the scheme.

He added: “If Sunday’s demonstration is banned, there may be an alternative ceremony. If there is going to be any civil war, the Blue Shirts won’t be concerned, because, being unarmed, theyl would be massacred; but civil war is possible without us.” TO-MORROW’S PARADE. (Recd. August 12, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. General O’Duffy has issued printed orders to the Blue Shirts, showing that he intends to defy the prohibition of uniforms. He commands the officers to impress on all ranks the imperative necessity for continuing the march in ranks, which shall not be broken, except by a direct order from a responsible officer.