TROUBLE AT BELFAST
ASSAULTS ON AND DISMISSALS OF WORKMEN. LONDON, July 30. Nearly three thousand are now idle at Harland and Wolff’s shipbuilding yards. “The Daily News and Leader” states that a large Belfast firm dismissed all Roman Catholics, numbering thirty, in their employ, and in retaliation Harland and Wolff are dismissing Orangemen.
Sir Devlin and other Nationalist members of the House of Commons are sending £SO for the relief of workers who are compulsorily idle in Belfast. Mr Devlin attributes the situation to the anti-Home Rule incitements to violence, which appeals to the worst passions of bigotry. 1 Mr Biircll, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking in the House, said that eighty assaults had been committed in Harland and Wolff’s yards in a month, five of them endangering life. A majority of Catholics were abstaining from work.
(Two battalions of troops had already been sent to Belfast, and a third was now being sent. SHIPYARD MEN REINSTATED. (Received July 31, 9.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. Harland and Wolff’s men having promised to exert their influence to prevent disturbances, which are caused mainly by disorderly youths, the shipwrights and drillers have been reinstated. Other departments will re-start work as soon as possible.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8188, 1 August 1912, Page 7
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