THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 603, 17 September 1913, Page 5

THE DUBLIN STRIKE.

HUNGER RIOTS FEARED. RAILWAYMEN JOIN IN. By Telegraph.—Fress Association.—Copyright London, Tuesday. Trade in Dublin is paralysed, and pries of commodities are rising. Hunger riots are feared.

Builders have locked out the labourers for refusing to sign a pledge against Larkin-ism. The Employers' Federation at Dublin, replying to criticisms, justifies its abandonment oE the conference on the ground thsrkit was impossible to make effective wgreemenls. One of\the Dublin itrike leaders, Jas. CoiWolly, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in default of finding sureties to keep the peace, has been released from Mountjoy prison as the result of a hunger strike.

Three London and North-western Liverpool were suspended for ®using to handle Dublin traffic. * Seven hundred struck in sympathy, despite the leaders' advice against a Btrike. /

Addressing a meeting of railwaymen in Victoria Park on Sunday Mr James Thomas, Labour M.P. for Derby, appealed to the men not to fritter away their powers and prostitute the great position they held. There was danger in calling out railwaymen over every little sectional dispute. Such action would lead to anarchy. He did not believe that 5 per cent, of those who demanded 30s a week as the minimum wage had given five minutes' consideration to what it meant. The demand was idle claptrap. The speaker aßked would the pay of the higher grades be increased proportionately. If not, the demand was grossly unfair.

Mr Ben lillett, addressing a gathering of 10,000 trade unionists at Southampton, advised all strikers to arm themselves with the most murderous guns they could get, and to be drilled by ex-soldiei-3 and sailors in order to protect themselves. A resolution was passed condemning the action of the Dublin police during the recent riots.

An order has been issued to drivers and conductors on the London tram-

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