PRAYERS FOR FOOD.
DISTRESS IN DUBLIN.
CRY OF THE LITTLE CHILDREN.
1 [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]
(Received 9.35 a.m.) London, September 28
Tlie loading of the steamer Hare at Manchester with 340 tons of food to relieve the starving families of Dublin strikers creates a record in trade union annals. On hundred and thirty volunteers working day and night packed 15,000 boxes of groceries, 30.000 101 b packages of potatoes, while the dockers on strike loaded the vessel as an expression of sympathy. The goods will be distributed in Dublin on Saturday.
Nearly 100,000 men, women, and children are suffering from cold and hunger. Many pitiable stories are recounted. In the slums many families sacrificed their poor household furnishings to provide bread. In one tenement the starving children were found praying for food before the Virgin's Shrine. The Board of Trade, with Sir G. K. Askwith, chairman of tlie Industrial Council, and Mesrs Ratcliffe, Ellis, ■and J. R- Clynes M.P. for Manchester, will enquire into the disputes. TJie enquiry opens on Monday.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 23, 27 September 1913, Page 5
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174PRAYERS FOR FOOD. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 23, 27 September 1913, Page 5
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