THE DUBLIN STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15911, 3 November 1913, Page 5

THE DUBLIN STRIKE

LARKIN'S IMPRISONMENT.

HIS RELEASE URGED,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 1. (Received Nov. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) ' The Chronicle appeals to Mr Birrell to release Larkin on the ground that it. is wrong and unwise to penalise a man for indiscretion in speech. Referring to Sir E. Carson it quotes that what in a captain is a choleric word, in a, soldier is flat blasphemy. The newspaper urges Mr Birrell not to allow the mephitic vapours of Dublin Castle to obscure his vision.

ATTEMPT AT SETTLEMENT,

STRIKERS' SPIRIT BROKEN

ESTIMATE OF FINANCIAL LOSS,

LONDON, November 1, (Received Nov, 2, at 5.5 p.m.)

Messrs Gosling and Bowerman's efforts, to settle the Dublin strike failed. The rumour that they intended to offer the employers the Parliamentary Committee's guarantee that the workmen would honourably execute the agreements led to the Larkinites protesting against English interference. They claimed the right to settle the' matter themselves. Mr Gosling assured the strikers that there would be no settlement over the transport workers' heads.

It is unlikely that a settlement w:!l be reached before Christmas. Meanwhile the strikers' spirit is broken. The tramcaxs and the majority of coal cart 6 are allowed to pass unmolested. All the pawnshops are full, and the pawnbrokers refuse to receive any more property.

Dublin's loss over the strike is estimated at £750,000.