IRISHMAN’S PROTEST.
Received August 7, 11.30 a.m. DUBLIN, Aug. G. “I would "O bare-skinned before I would wear imported cloth,” declared a member of the Dail, Mr James liarkin, walking out of the Irish Trade Union Congress as a protest against the cloth covering the delegates’ table. “Ireland produces the finest linen,” he said afterwards. “It is outrageous that the cloth used was manufactured under sweated conditions in countries like Italy and that other den of infamy, Germany.”
OBJECTS TO IMPORTED CLOTH
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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82IRISHMAN’S PROTEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 9
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