IRELAND

Southland Times, Issue 18838, 3 June 1920, Page 5

IRELAND

TRANSPORT OF MUNITIONS. TRADE UNION CONGRESS TO BE CONVENED. (By Tclegranh.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.) LONDON, May 30. The Triple Alliance Sub-Committee passed a resolution declaring that the position mentioned in a letter from the National Onion of Raihvaymen in regard to Ireland warranted consideration of the problem by the organised trade union movement of I the whole of Britain. The matter, therefore would he referred to the Parliamentary Committee, urgently requesting that a special Trade Union Congress be convened ; early so that the attitude of British Labour towards the production and handling of I munitions of war for Ireland and Poland i may he determined. I The above-mentioned letter refers to the ■ executive of the National Union of Rail-

; waymen consideration of the refusal of i Lash members to handle munitions, and the executive's decision of May 27 to refer the matter to the Triple Alliance. A WASHINGTON SCENE. SENATE INVADED BY IRISH SYMPATHISERS. i WASHINGTON, June 1. i Irish women sympathisers created a scene in the Senate galleries, hecklers demanding tb.e expulsion of the English from Ireland, i The ushers removed a dozen women ex- \ citcdly struggling and shouting. The proceedings were suspended until the ; ejection was completed.