DUBLIN'S STARVING POOR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 7

DUBLIN'S STARVING POOR.

HUNGRY CROWDS MEET RELIEF STEAMER. APPEAL FOR FUNDS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrisht London, Septembor 28. Hungry crowds welcomed tho relief steamer sent by English trade unionists to Dublin. • Tho Parliamentary Committeo of the Trado Union Congress is appealing for funds to send further shipments. Mr. Itamsay Mac Donald, M.P., in supporting the appeal, deprecated sympathetic strikes as being worse than useless. They only widened tho area of conflict and lessened tho chance of victory. (Rec. September 29, 11.15 p.m.) > London, September 29. Tho Mersey Quay and Railway Carters' Union has forwarded £500 to the Dublin Strikers' Relief Fund.

SYNDICALIST CONGRESS. London, September 28. The International Syndicalist Congress met in London, Mr. Tom Mann presiding. A feature of the congress will bo a discussion on anti-militarism. A Swedish motion urges tho workers of the world to prevent war by refusal to manufacture or transport munitions of war.

BROKEN HILL SHOPS STRIKE. Sydney, September 29. The position with regard to tho Broken Hill shop assistants' strike is unaltered. A large crowd hooted tho female employees at Pellew and Moore's drapery shop when they were leaving tho premises. A few stones were thrown, a fanlight boing broken and a big plate-glass window cracked. No ono was arrested.

WORKERS' RENT IN SYDNEY. Sydney, September 29. Before tho Wages Board, a land agent stated that the rents for workmen's cottages since 1910 bad increased by 20 per cont. Other witnesses stated that meat for a family had risen by 33 per cent., and groceries by 20 per cent, since 1910.

TRADES UNIONISTS AND CANADIAN MILITIA. ' Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. September 29, 7.25 p.m.) Ottawa, September 2D. The Canadian Trades Congress has passed a resolution disapproving of trades unionists joining the militia._ A proposal to organise a Political Labour Party was rejected.

IN SOUTH AFRICA. GENERAL STRIKE SHELVED. (Rec. September 29, 11.15 p.m.) Johannesburg, September 29.' The Trades' Federation Conferenco which was held to discuss the recent prosecution of labour leaders for making inflammatory speeches in public has shelved the proposal for declaring a general striko as- a protest.