UNREST IN IRELAND

Otago Witness, Issue 3105, 17 September 1913, Page 27

UNREST IN IRELAND

STEIKE LEADEE IMPEISONED. LONDON, September 8. James Connolly, a Dublin strike leader who was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in default of finding sureties to be of good behaviour, is on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison. September 10The strike in Dublin is upsetting th« crors-channel cargo traffic. Boats which were unable to discharge at Dublin returned to Holyhead, and the goods were returned to the senders. The master builders in Dublin have d©r cided not to employ members of Mr Larkin’s union. Thousands of people are affected. Larkin has been committed for trial. There is a feeling of depression throughout Dublin. The cost of provisions is increasing, and coal is rapidly mounting in' price. The poor are unable-’ to purchase it. Carrier firms are resorting to the usa of motors.

The military are retained as a safeguard against further disturbances. September 12. Larkin has given bail for £4OO and a bond for his good behaviour. Men, women, and children are literally starving in Dublin Women and children are loitering in their homes, from which the furniture has been pawned to buy food, and men aro standing about sullenly, seldom speaking, as they are too tired and hungry to converse. September 13. The Employers’ Federation in Dublin has notified that it declines to renew tha conference. It says it is confronted not with ordinary trade unionism, but with syndicalism, which is seeking to deluge uninstructed men with Continental theories in relation to capital and labour —theories which have broken down whenever they have been tried. The struggle to rid themselves and the employees from the yoke of intimidation is costly, but there is no alternative

The farmers in the Dublin County hav« resolved to lock out 2000 labourers belonging to the Transport Workers’ Union.