IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3528, 15 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

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I.()NDON, July 13.

lfli-glit. liuudred delegates, representing live million membors_, attended :1. special trades union congress to disc.u.'~:s l'relia.nd. A very lively debate I'osultod in a proposal iimnediatcly to down tools to €IIfOl:CC the \\'il:h<.lru\\'al of troops being {lei-isively <lefe:LreLl. Vzcrious unions then offered panncezts, the debate finally ranging round the National Union of Ruil\vaynlen’s resolution pro-posing ‘:1 truce in Ireland, the Sinn Fein stopping mm-dc-r and out.l'-ages and the Goviernment with; drawing the znrmy of occupation, an liish Parlimnenti to be created ‘with fiill dominion powers when the truce was secured.

Mr Thomas, sugpo-rting the motion, said there were powerful influences at V\“'osllni.n.<t(3l' whose only desire was to emzourugo -.1 figlit to a finish. 3 Mr Bl'omlo.y_. on behalf of the locomotive enginee.l‘.~j, said the most humane thing would be to say to Ireland: “If you wont’ listen to I'ea§6il we will wasli our hands of the country.” '.[‘he railaylnell’s resolution was carried by 1,953,000.-votes fo 1,759,000. Mr Smillie. coinplnincd that there was nothing in the I:ailwaynl(—*,n resolution to meet the sittmtimi if the Gov ennnent. declined. “I do7l’t. reconnnoud direct action for fun," he said, “but in order to save our brothers in Iroland.”

A delegate from the cotton operatives’ Union opposed the “Clown tools” policy, liecause it was exceedingly Llztllgexqus, and mo one knew where it would end. , The Ininers’ resolution in favour of a. strike ballot do enforce demands relating to Ireland and Russia was carried by 2,700,000 to 1,736,000. Loud. cheers greeted ‘Elle annollncelllent of the figures.

In respolfse to questions -as to What the votirfgs implied, Mr Thomas, ~the chairman, explained that if file Gove‘l"n’ment refused to agree to tfie railw.ayA-mc-n’s restolution, than that of the miners would come into operation;

AN ILLICIT POST OFFICE.

LONDON, July 13

Barry, a fireman 011 an Atlantic lin~ er, was sentenced to two months at Bow Street. for bringing eight letters to England otherwise than through the post. The prosécutiou said’ Barry was in close tduch with Irish revolutionaries in Aniericzi. The correspond,ence included a letter from De Valera. denying improperly ‘spending Sinn Fein funds. ‘ « V

TWO CONSTABLES SHOT.

LONDON, Ju'ly 13.

An armed party ambushed a police motor car between Colg}lane' and Dingle, in County Kerry. They ‘shot dead two constables and! seriously wounded 21 ‘police inspector and the chauffeur. The raiders stole arms and ammunition. A GUN-"RUNNER.

LONDON‘ July 14.

William Parry, a member of uhe crow of an Atlantic -liner, was sentenced to six months on a. charge (of smuggling arms a.'ll'd munitions for the Sinn Feiners. '