IRISH PROBLEM.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1920, Page 5

IRISH PROBLEM.

ATTITUDE OF LABOR.

ftraOKE MOTION DEFEATED.

Ut Tekgrsph.—Presi Aon.—Copyright. Received July 14, 11.10 p.m. London, July 13. Eight hundred delegates, representing five million members, attended a special Trades Union Congress to discuss Irebwd. The liveliest debate resulted in a proposal immediately, to down tools to enforce the withdrawal of troops being decisively defeated. Various unions then offered panaceas, the debit* finally ranging' round the National Union of Raifwaymen's rejolu- • tisfc proposing a truce in Ireland, Sinn Fein stopping murder outrages, and the GofSHrtfiSlrt Withdrawing the army of occupation. When a truce was secured *9 Irish Parliament was to be created Srlth fall Dominion powers. Mr. J: 5. Thorn;: i M.P. (General Secretary of National Union of Railwayf men)/ supporting, said they were powerful influences at Westminster whose only desire was to encourage a fight to a taiik.

Mr. Bromley, on behalf of the locomotive engineers, sajd the most humane thinfr would be to say to Ireland: "If #ou wont listen t° reason we wash our Bands: of the country." Thei .railwiymen'j! resolution was carried by 5,953,006 votes to 1.759,000. Mr. H. Smillie (President of the Miners' .Federation) complained that there was nothing in the railwaymen's

.rtsoltttHm to meet the situation if the Gowrnawt decline. "I don's recommend r/ dir»ct action," he laid, "for fun, bat order to rave our brothers in Ireland." .

AUalegate from .the cißton operatives' QBtyjQ apposed the down tools poliqy, be--Mtaw Itwaa exceedingly dfcngerout, and no one knew where it would end. TKe miners' resolution in favor of a strike ballot tq enforce the oeraands relating to Ireland and Russia w.-w carried by 2,760,000 votes to 1.786,000. lond greeted the announcement of-the in to questions as to what the Voting implied, Mr. Thomas (chairman) explained that if the Government refnsed to agree to the railwaymen's resolution, then that of the miners would come into operation.—Aus.-N.Z. Ckble Atsn.

SMUGGLING LETTERS. v ATTACK OR POLICE. ' Received July 14, 11.35 pjn. London, July T3. xjarry, a. fireman on an Atlantic liner, wag to two-months, at Bow Street, for bringing eight letters to EnghnS «ihenri*e than through the pott. Tty prosecution' sa.id Barry was in close tenth with Irish revolutionaries in Alneriea. The correspondence included a letter from' De Valera denying improperly spending Sinn Fein fund?. iAa aimed party* ambushed a police between Cloghane and Dingle, in . Kerry, ana shot dea'd Iwo constables, seriously wounded a police inspe«tOr, and the chauffeur. The raiders stole arms and ammunition.— Aug.-N.Z. Cable Aran.'