AGAINST HOME RULE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, 1 August 1912, Page 5

AGAINST HOME RULE.

LABOR DISTURBED AT BELFAST

TROOPS ON THE SCENE

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGRXj LONDON. July 30.

Til ere are nearly three thousand men idle at Hariand and W olff s works.

Tlie “Daily News’’ states that a large Belfast firm dismissed all Roman Catholics, numbering in their employ, and retaliating, liar-, land and Wolff were dismissing Orangemen. Mr Devlin, M.P., is sending £SO for the relief of workers compulsorily thrown idle at Belfast. He attributes the situation to anti-Home Rule, incitements to violence, and appeals to the worst passions of bigotry. Mr Birrell (secretary of .State for Ireland) in the House of Commons, said there had been SO assaults committed at Harland and Wolff’s yards in a month, in five of which life was endangered. The majority of Catholics were abstaining from work. Two battalions of troops were already in Belfast, and a third liad been sent.

HARLAXD AND WOLFF SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

(Received July 31. 9.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. On Messrs Harland and Wolff’s men promising to exert influence to prevent- disturbances mainly by disorderly youths, the shipwrights and drillers were reinstated.

Tlie other departments will re-start as soon as possible.