THE DUBLIN STRIKE

Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 28

THE DUBLIN STRIKE

CARE OF THE CHILDREN. MR LARKIN SURRENDERS TO BAIL. LONDON, October 22. The Roman Catholic authorities in Dublin are greatly alarmed over the proposal to send a number of the strikers’ children to be tended in England, because of the possibility of their not being brought up in the Catholic faith. Despite Archbishop Walsh’s injunction 50 of the strikers’ children were about to leave, when the priests intervened arid induced the majority to return to their homes. Some of the women dragged the others from the steamer. October 20. Mrs Montefiore, who was managing the deportation scheme, collected 50 boys and girls in Dublin, bathed them, and dressed them in new clothes. Their mothers followed them to the and notified the priests, who protested 'n impassioned tones against the children being sent to atheistic and Socialistic homes in England. Most of the children left Mrs Montefiore, shouting:—“We won’t be English children.” A number of the children were hustled aboard a steamer, where a priest renewed the scenes and rescued. some of them. Finally 15 sailed. Mr Larkin, speaking at Liberty Hall, urged the parents to allow their children to go. Mrs Rand, the daughter of a former American Minister to Portugal, has been remanded on a charge of the attempted abduction of a child from Dublin. Mrs Montefiore asked that the charge be transferred to herself, as she was responsible. The Magistrate declined the request, and advised Mrs Montefiore to abandon the movement. He said that, however good her motive was, ill-feeling was being aroused. .. Mrs Montefiore, replying to Archbishop Walsh, stated that she was anxious to safeguard the children’s religion, and was endeavouring to send them to a Catholic school and homes. Mrs Montefiore has been arrested. Several priests and trade unionists met 18 Dublin children who came across to Liverpool, and they have all been satisfactorily accommodated. October 24. The Daily Chronicle says the Dublin strikers are beaten, and they are only hanging on because of a spirit that will only yield on some sore terms. October 25. Mr Larkin and others have surrendered to their bail at Dublin. A large crowd assembled at Liberty Hall and escorted them to the court, shouting and cheering, Mr Justice Madden said that the evidence showed a deplorable state of affairs. It was their duty to vindicate the law and protect the public against violence and wrong-doing. Mr Larkin and the others were charged with using seditious words, inciting to crime, and of intimidation. The jury found a true bill. Mr John Parkinson has offered to receive 300 children at his two mansions on the outskirts of Dublin. The priests removed 11 children who were entraining at Dublin for England, and a crowd prevented seven from entraining for Scotland, via Belfast, despite an assurance that they belonged to the Church of Ireland. An enormous crowd, including some priests, watched the steamer Northwall, but there were no children on board. A crowd formed a procession in the streets, singing Roman Catholic hymns. Six hundred Protestants at Ballymoney, in North Antrim, have initiated a peace committee, consisting of all parties to formulate an acceptable solution of the Home Rule question. The speakers included Captain White, the late Field Marshal’s son, Mrs Green, the historian, and Mr Alex. Wilson, leader of the Belfast moderates. Archbishop Ciozier, Lord Primate of Ireland, addressing the Armagh Diocesan Synod, stated that owing to the exigencies of party warfare Ireland was faced with an awful prospect of discord, disaster, racial and religious strife and the horrors of civil war. Mr Larkin’s action in outraging the feelings of the Catholic Church had caused his influence to decline appreciably. The priests had reasserted their authority over the women and the working classes. It was no longer certain that Mr Larkin enjoyed the unquestioning obedience of tV><> trartartort unions.