WILD SCENES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1912, 21 November 1913, Page 7

WILD SCENES.

LARKIN AT THE ALBERT HALL. CABINET MINISTER'S NAME HISSED. SYMPATHY STRIKES TURNED DOWN, By Teiiernßh—Vrtsa Ap&or.iat!on—OoDnlrbC t (Woe. November 20, 11 p.m.) , nl London, November 19. J lie Albert Halt was crowdcd when i James Larfa,i, the Dublin strike loader, V gav-o (us promised address. There were ■■ wild scenes. Medical students exploded i tractors, and pandemonium reigned until they we.ro turned oat. > -Mr. G. Lansfeury, ox.Laboti.r JL'P., nm- - !i f t L* ,st£od V'" meeting not to tet,et _tnat thousands of Indians in South i llnf? T' 6 + i boi "3 b " rla, iy iMl.cd and shot to death. J Ins treatment of inr.o- - cent subjects was a ghastly parody of I SH' ' Sat if )a - to the Dublin i ■ Jk ° ! the speaker said the the Liborai faovornmcnt wore a lot of bullies, who I w f e trj'fflg to crush the \fca:k. 1 i i ''otl.V attacked tho Govern- ? iGn T , M f- Swell's (Chief Secretary lor Ireland) name was hissed, and thero : ' "" ero of "Jiang him!» " Larkrn > demanded that English trade, unionists should assist the Dublin strikers immoi WStead. of calling a national - eutforence m three weeks' time. There was a time, ho saidj whol, Mr. Asqnilh ■ - oor^e had human i ■m, i i? w ti,oy lliul become stones. that people had a Tho meeting resolved that the 330 strikers imprisoned in Dublin must be leleascd fortinvith. _ The. medical students who obstructed J.arkm s meeting at the Albert Hall afterwards raided tho electricity generating station, and with difficulty wore presented from _ extinguishing every light on tho building. Four arrests M-om made. Other disturbed brS.e street lamps and tampered with tho hro alarms.

NO SYMPATHY strike. ATTITUDE OF TRADE UNION CONGRESS. Ti t> 'i- London, November 19. i>, 6 i ar C'ommitteo of the J Jaclo Union Congress does not intend to rccomnieuc! a sympathetic strike. It favours continuing its support of tbo Ti l iw- r iar ?, cvor J' w Way. • rt +r tC 11 }- 65 ' d,se »ssj»B the attitude (>t t io Parliamentary Committed of tile Iratle Union Congress, says;—" They MUHot abandon the Irish transporter/, io do so would be to abdicate. At the sa F >e . tt'!}' cannot endorse tho principles avowed and .practised by Lariun. as to do so would be to take leave ot their senses. Xlicy .must know pericctly well ttat Lark in is in is itfi.possjbie, and can only lead to chaos. TMs extraordinary man is nearly as great an embarrassment to his friends as he ia to ins enoflnes, perhaps a greater, Onco a strike is begun out this side of the Channel the battle will not easily' bii funned, a.nd none Ca:n foresGo its issue " POSTAL .OFFICIALS' DEMANDS, BRITISH POSTMASTER-GENERAL iKiERVIEWED. ~ „ London, November 19. Mr. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-Gen-,.enu, received a postal officials' d'epU" tii-tion, He. rojccto.d the demand for an , increase of fifteen pet cent,, 'involving i an extra two ami a half millions- per annum; but said he was willing to grant' concessions beyond the Holt Committee involving an ox* Ho added that in the event of a strike the Country Would insist on steps being taken to render a recurrence impossible, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOUR. TO PARTICIPATE LY POLITICS; (Ecc. -.Novejifter Si; 0,20 a.m.) Nety York, Novctiiber 80. Mie • Amerit-a'n Federation of Labour lias decided that the time is not yet ripe for the formation of an American Political Labour Party, but lia3 declared ; twit it is necessary to, participate to ftgrcrita', extent iii politics in order io protect Labour's interests. ' UNIONISTS* PERMITS. Sydney, November 20, The Auburn meat- works have been closed down owing to tho men refusing to work with, slaughtermen who did not possess a union permit. Four hundred men are. idle in coiiscqunr.ce. FRENCH MINERS. OUT Paris, November 19. . Over 25,000 miners have si-ruck at Pas de Calais, with a view to compelling the Senate to relinquish amendments to <lie Eight Hours Bill increasing the overtime margin,