IRISH PROBLEM.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' LONDON, Tuesday. The latest development of the Irish situation is the refusal of the Irish railwaymen to work trains conveying Government munitions to the military stores, or carrying Sinn Fein prisoners. They based their refusal on that of flu- British railwayman to handle munitions which were to be used to kill Irishmen.
Thus far soldiers have been employed as stevedores to unload ships which the dockers refused to handle, but it is expected that signalmen and other Irish railwaymen will strike if military engineers are used to drive trains. /Much will depend on whether the Lxecutive pf the National Union of Railv.aymen will approve the action of the Irishmen. So far, Air Thomas’s reply lias not been received. When the railwaymen refused to carry Sinn Fein prisoners to Sligo, a military lorry was used, but felled trees and stone barricades blocked all roads around BaJlinamcye. The lorry only reached Sligo with the greatest difficulty.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14127, 27 May 1920, Page 6
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