THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 40, 18 November 1913, Page 3

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

EMPLOYERS' MANIFESTO. A LONDON, Nov. 15. A Dublin employers' manifesto declares that the large majority of the strikers were not locked out, but that they left .work and refused to perform their ordinary duties. There was no question of wages, hours, or conditions. Hie transport workers' was the only union to which the employers objected, i because an official had openly counselled them to break agreements. SIR G. ASKWITH'Si REPORT. _. . LONDON, Nov. 15. Jhe Irish executive has invited employers to make tniggested modificat'or.s to fen- George Askwith's (Chief Conciliation Commissioner) report. TRADES COUNCIL DEPUTATION. , LONDON, Nov. 15. , w ™ .Inidej Council, organised Bristol workers, sent a deputation to Hon. A. ISirrell (Secretary for Ireland) demanding in violent language the release of the Dublin strikers. Mr Widdieombe (vice-president of the Council) in a bitter sniwh, charged the Government and particularly Hon A. Birrell with direct responsibility for the brutal .minders in Ireland. Mr Birrell interpreted the accusation .as tantamount to calling the Govw'lmwit and the authorities scoundrels. Mr Uiddioombe: Hear, hear! Hon, A. Birrell: If such is Mr Widdicom.be s opinion it is useless for ai deputation to approach him. He denied that the police were at the employer*' call, and assured them that a judicial inquiry would proceed.

REFUSAL TO COAL A VESSEL. LONDON, Nov. 15. Dockers at Liverpool refused to coal the Ma.