TRADES CONGRESS RESENTMENT

Northern Advocate, 3 September 1913, Page 5

TRADES CONGRESS RESENTMENT

"A BLOODY GOVERNMENT." PRESS CONDEMNATION OF POLICE BRUTALITY. KICKING PROSTRATE VICTIMS. LONDON, Sept. 2. At the Trades Congress in Manchester, during the discussion on the position of affairs in Dublin the delegates wore noisy and excited. A number abstained from attending the civic reception as a demonstration against the so-called butchery of workers. Mr Smillie supported a resolution pledging- all the delegates to boycott he reception but the resolution was defeated. Mr Ben Tillett characterised the Government as "a bloody GovernJment," and said if the massacre in Dublin was to continue the workers must have the right to use firearms. Mr Stanton advocated a general strike .'is a reply to the Dublin affair. A deputation from the Dublin Trades Council meets the Congress to-day. Three hundred striking clay workers at Saint Austell have returned to work under police protection. A large force of pickets attempted to prevent ihe men's return, forcing the police to charge with batons. Forty were injured, including the strike leaders, before the crowd was dis-

persed. The "Daily Chronicle's" Dublin correspondent alleges that the police used unnecessary violence. A little tact, he declares, might have prevented the disturbances. The baton charges were reprisals for what occurred on Saturday. Some of the police lost their heads and tempers. At the time of Larkin's arrest, Sackville Street was filled with, promenaders and afterwards the most brutal constabulary ever let loose upon a peaceful assembly rushed up and down the street like men possessed. Kicking prostrate victims was a settled part of the police programme. None resented this; there was no attempt at rescue, no abuse of the police. Most of the respectable victims crawled away with bleeding heads. The "Daily Mail" states that the police erred on the side of brutality. They deliberately waited for runiways and clubbed them as they ran. The photographs show this distinctly. LONDON, Sept. 3. Seven youths have been remanded at Londonderry an the charge of shooting O'Neill during the riots in that city on Saturday.