DUBLIN TROUBLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 53, 3 November 1913, Page 5

DUBLIN TROUBLES.

SETTLEMENT DELAYED.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, November 1.

The ' efforts of Messrs Powerman and Gosling, a leading employer and a leading trades’ unionist, to settle the Dublin strike, have failed.

It was rumored that there was an intention to offer to the employers the Labor Parliamentary Committee’s guarantee that the workmen , would honorably execute their agreements. This led to the Larkinites to protect against English interference. They claimed the right to settle matters themselves. Gosling assured thcstrikers that there would be no setclernnt over the heads of the transport workers.

It is not likely that there will be a settlement before Chr.s .mas. In the meanwhile the spirit of the strikers is broken. Tramcars and the majority of the coal carfs are allowed to pass unmolested. All the pawnshops pie full, and the pawnbrokers refuse to receive more Dublin’? loss through the strike is (estimated at'three-quarters of a million. LARKIN’S RELEASE SOUGHT. London, November 1. The Chronicle appeals to Mr A. Birrel, Secretary of State for Ireland, to release Larkin on the ground that it is unwise to penalise men for indiscretion in speech. .Referring to Sir Edward Carson, the Chronicle quotes: “What in the captain is a choleric word, in the soldier is rank blasphemy.” It urges Mr Birrell not to allow the neopholic vapours of Dublin Castle to obscure his vision.

A LARKIN DEMONSTRATION.

(Received 8.30 a.m.) London, November 2. A crowded demonstration in Albert Hall demanded Larkin’s release. Mr Lansbury (M.P. for Tower Hamlet), Mr 'Ben Tillett, Mrs Montifiore and Mrs Pethrick Lawrence were among the speakers. THE CHURCH AS A CATSPAW. London, November 2. Mr Bernard Shaw described the Dublin priests as very ignorant, simple men, particularly in industrial affairs. Even more horrible than their individual action was that the great church was being made a catspaw by a man like Murphy.