THE DUBLIN POOR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16493, 7 March 1914, Page 12

THE DUBLIN POOR.

TO THE EDITOR. .' ' Sir —I am a new chum from Dublin. Years ago I had the privilege of swinging a pick and shovel with Jim Larkin for a living wage. are they al-j ■ways so anxious to pay Paddy Pick a living wage? They don’t, trouble about bishops and editors having a liv-i ing wage and these fellow workers mus»l feel the pinch although they bear itl in silence. But to the point. I always religiously attend the outside edge of j the Sunday night meeting in the; Square, and last Sunday I felt like punching the head of a fellow who told' the crowd of the sickening, sordid' grinding of the poor in Dublin apd| said the priests never lent Jim Larkin! a hand. Now, I know that is a lie. j Many of the Driests did for the Dublin docker wliat ‘ Cardinal Manning did for the London docker, and though it is a long time since Jim Larkin taught me to forget the Orangeman, it was only last year I heard him say, Ro» member the priests, they are with us,— < I am, etc., i * WkTTVTX 1 \YTV nT» I.VIWTkT

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