FIFTY THOUSAND AT A FUNERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9589, 5 September 1913, Page 5

FIFTY THOUSAND AT A FUNERAL.

REMARKABLE SCENES IN DUBLIN.

A RIOT VICTIM'S CORTEGE.

(Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Fu Past* AHocunoa.) Received September 5, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 4

The funeral of the striker Nolan, who was killed in Saturday's riots, was the occasion for a remarkable demonstration in Dublin. The procession was two miles long and the mourners. numbered many thousands. They tramped five miles to Glasnevin cemetery, where there was an assemblage of fifty thousand. The crowd en route was excited and nervous., At one spot the cry of "police" was raised, and hundreds of shrieking women, many carrying babies, rushed the shops and hotels for refuge. The procession was almost deserted, except the pall-bearers, until the pipers restored calmness by resuming the dirge.

BOYCOTTING A UNION. LONDON, Sept. 4. Fpur hundred leading employer* of Dublin have resolved that they have friendly feelings for trade, unionism, but that the Transport Union is intolerable. A majority of the four hundred signed a pledge not to employ members of the' union.

STRIKERS AND THE POLICE. (London Times.—Sydney Sun Special.) Received September 5, 9.0 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. At the Trade Union Congress at Manchester, Mr Clynes, a Commoner, demanded an enquiry into the conduct of the police in the china clay workers' strike in Cornwall, with a view to punishing the offenders. He declared that the importation of police for the purpose of repressing strikes was becoming unhappily common. The police authorities were in danger of losing confidence in the masses. He declared that if repeated attacks on organised labour were tolerated, their power would soon vanish.