WORKERS’ REPUBLIC

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1932, Page 7

WORKERS’ REPUBLIC

THE POLICY OF PE VALERA

LONDON, September 7

It will be grand in Ireland in a few months’ time,” is the typical comments of spendthrifts and weaklings, who dream of the Government starting village industries which benefit those hitherto unable to succeed, says the Dublin . correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian.” Such a development is anticipated as part of Mr de Valera’s .projects for an economic revolution to produce independence and economy based on Christian principles. Mr de Valera’s gospel, beside raising the hopes of the “have notes” and small farmers, appeals also to the bolder spirits of the Irish Republican Army as a more or less general redistribution of property and repudiation of debts to bankers. On tile other hand, property owners see what so-called “financial independence,” implemented under the direction of local I.R.A. dictators, would mean for them. Consequently they aro' determined to prevent it—hence Mr O’Higgins’ formation of the volunteer organisation, and the support which the “white army” is receiving. It is idle to suppose that the “white” and the “red” armies can exist alongside each oilier without dangerous clashes, os the I.R.A. will not abandon its projects without a tough struggle. Already reports ore coming in 01 sporadic incidents suggesting that constitutional authority shortly will be challenged in the name of Workers’ Republic. Such incidents are expected to increase when the strain of the economic war grows in the autumn and winter.