THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1921, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BRITISH LABOUR SHEARS. ADVIC'TC TO LI.OVO GEORGE. LONDON, September 7. The British Trade Union Congress is sitting at Cardiff. In voicing t! attitude of the Congress on the Irish question, the Parliamentary Committee and the National Executive of the British Labour Party has sent the following message to Air Lloyd George on Tuesday night: “The Irish negotiations have now entered on a most critical stage. Tt would he a disaster if the deep and spontaneous feelings in favour of peace which are now prevailing in the two countries were allowed to evaporate while their representatives are engaged in exchanging uontroversiil notes. The British Government, in

our opinion should invite the representatives of the Irish people to meet them face to face at a conference. The promotion of peace involves personal negotiation in conference in order that- the British Government mid the Irish leaders may escape verbal controversy and arrive at a recognition of the realities of the problem. “A termination of the negotiations would according t» you mean the resumption of hostilities in Ireland in an intensified form. AYe declare emphatically. that a new- war would outrage the moral sense of the whole world, and would never receive the British people’s sanction. “The Trade Union and the Labour movement in this country must insist on the assembly of a reace Conference without delay. We believe that this is the desire of the citizens of tilth countries, and that ontie continuous conversations supersede written communications, many obstacles to reconciliation would disappear, and the negotiations be carried to a successful issuo.”

CORK SOY'IET EPISODE. LONDON, September 7

The harbour workers' Soviet formed at Cork, proved a short-lived one*. Most of the subordinate Harbour Board employees regarded the seizure of offices as a Gilbertian act, and these employees in a spirit of jest, offered to ‘•carry on” under Soviet control. However, the Dai! Eirennn Ministry Of Labour lias intervened. This has resulted iii the strikers consenting to submit the dispute to Arbitration. An Arbitration Board, representing the parties equally, is being set up. the |),-ij| Eireann nominating the chairman. The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s” Cork correspondent States: “The Cork public luive been predominantly against the strikers, principally lieciuise their action is regarded as one of treachery to Sinn Fein.