IRISH QUESTION.

Grey River Argus, 17 January 1922, Page 5

IRISH QUESTION.

SOUTHERN PARLIAMENT MEETS. GRIFFITHS’S APPEAL. A NEW ERA, LONDON, January 14. The Southern Parliament meeting lasted half an hour. The business was formal. Mr. Pierce Beasley submitting the ratification motion remarked: “We are here to do business, not io talk.*’ Mr. Joseph Mcßride seconded, and said that the overwhelming majority of Irishmen demanded the treaty. The resolution was adopted, whereupon Mr. Griffiths pointed out that the Provisional Government would now be created to take charge of the carrying out of the terms of the treaty. The Dail Eireann would remain in existence until the terms were carried out, and a general election held in Ireland. The Provisional Government deserved the support of every good Irishman. The task would be heavy, as there were difficulties from the outset, but with the help of all classes, they would succeed. The Provisional Government would regard no distinction between Irishmen. Every guarantee would be made for fair play all round. Mr. Griffiths said: We are starting a new era. We want* the old differences between sections of Irishmen banished for ever. New differences would arise as in every community, but- they would be between Irishmen owning the one State.

TERENCE McSWINEY’S CHAPLAIN. RELEASED ROM GAOL. — LONDON, January 14. The Rev. Father Dominie, the Irish member of a Religious Order, who during the last months of Terence McSwiney’s life, acted as his chaplain at Brixton Prison, and who was thereafter placed in gaol himself by the English Government, has just been restored his liberty, he being among the prisoners released to-day. THE CLASS STRUGGLE. WAGE-CUTS AND LONGER HOURS. LONDON, January 14. The threatened railway strike in Ireland as a protest against the proposed revision of wages and hours has been postponed for a month. The Provisional Government, meanwhile, will investigate the dispute. The General Council of the Trade Union Congress has issued a manifesto to the Unions throughout the country, proposing to create national machinery enabling the whole force of the trade union movement to combat attempts to reduce wages and increase hours, incidentally suggesting that the Council should be empowered to make a national levy to support the individual unions attacked. GRANITE WORKERS REDUCED GERMANY WINNING THE PKXCE. LONDON, January 14. Aberdeen granite merchants are notifying a reduction in wages owing to slackness in the trade. They state that English cities are importing tombstones and war memorials made in Germany from Scandinavian granite.