The Dublin Strike.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 66, 18 November 1913, Page 5

The Dublin Strike.

LARKIN, LABOR'S APOSTLE

TRADE UNIONISM ETHICS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

London, November 17

Speaking at .Manchester, Larkin urged trades unionists not to handle Liverpool goods. He said that he was there to defend the Ancint Order of Hibernians. The bird who fouled its brood was ever cursed in the country* After describing the horrors of the slums in Dublin, Larkin vigorously denounced those who appealed to Englishmen to give Home Rule because they wanted to become part of the Umpire, yet in the next breath accused Englishmen and Scotsmen who offered to receive starving children as attempting to proselytise. He denied presuming to attempt a general strike or telling the trade union quidnuncs, who were the Wise Men from the East, what'to do. It was for his hearers to tell them. He added: ''You are sending us money, food, and relieving us from gaol. We can remove others from gaol, and get the 'scabs' out of Dublin. Support us in the fight to obtain the right to combine. What are the unions doing? They are blacklegging it. 'Scab' rates lower the cost to the capitalist. It is time we woke up, and if you want to disgrace your manhood and your unions by pretending to be friendly and giving money, damn you and your money! (Cheers.) We don't want vour money."

Continuing, Larkin said: "We want you to carry out the ethics of trades unionism. Don't scab us as organised men. Tf the scabs handle stuff, are you going to handle it in Manchester and Liverpool P (Cries of no.) We are being offered up in Dublin as a sacrifice to the Mammon of capitalism. I say this must.be broken down. Don't only send your money, we don't thank you for doing your duty." (Cheers.) Mr Larkin bitterly complained of eight hundred scabs, some wearing a badge well known to the union. He added: "If this is trades unionism, then damn your trades unionism."

It was resolved to urge the trade union executives to summon a national conference for the purpose of taking national action to preserve trades union rights. ' The Labor Party in Dublin at the next general election intends to oppose Cotton, Clancey and Abraham. Any considerable number of obstructives will endanger other seats.

"SANE TRADE UNIONISM."

(Received 8.0 'a-iri.)

London, November 17

In a letter to The Times, Mr Murphy defends the Dublin employers. He says they are really fighting the battle of sane trades unionism. Larkin is a colossal vanity, with a vaulting ambition to make himself labor dictator, and will cause trouble. Mr Murphy suggests to the Labor Party that it is unfair to make unionism tha issue of this dispute.