IRISH DICTATORSHIP

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1933, Page 5

IRISH DICTATORSHIP

EE VALERA’S AIM ATTACK BY MR COSGRAVE. (United Press Aseo.nation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 17. General O’Duffy, at the opening of the United Ireland Party campaign, declared that it was clear that Mr tie "Valera- was demanding a dictatorship. Let him take warning. He could not illegalise by his own fiat, things that were inherently lawful. If lie attempted to pervert the law, and abolish a lawabiding movement o-n the pretext of political danger his Government would be speedily and sharply ended. Mr Cosgrave declared that the Unted Party advocated the opening of external markets competing on the British market with other countries. There was nothing un-Irish in selling produce to Britain. Mr de Valera had ruined Ireland, as the result of engineering an illegal and dishonest movement, by picking a quarrel with Britain, and leaving Ireland to pay the cost of his folly. Mr. de Valera knew how to encourage disobedience of the law, but was stern with farmers not paying rates.’ The Government struck the first blow in the civil war in bringing the "Waterford farmers before a military tribunal. Its mad policy had reduced the fanner to a sorry position, Mr McDermott land Mr Dillon also ] spoke, I

LABOUR SUPPORTS DE VALERA

DUBLIN, September 17. Mr Norton, Labour leader gave his Kildare constituents details of the Labour’s counter fusion agreement with the Government which he endorsed. He said that Mr de Valeria had guaranteed provison of widows and orphans’ pensions, financial assistance to unemployed, increased house building, and also consultations with Labour regarding higher wages on relief schemes, and all projected legislation. Labour was not barteiing its identity. The arrangement would permit a united front against Britain s challenge to Ireland’s independence.