TROUBLE IN DUBLIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 September 1913, Page 5

TROUBLE IN DUBLIN.

THE POLICE BLAMED. ALLEGED UNNECESSARY BRUTALITY. (.Received Last Night, 11.20 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 2. The Chronicle's Dublin correspondent alleges that the police »sed unnecessary violence. A little tact might have prevented the disturbances. The' baton charges were reprisals for what occurred on Saturday, when the police lost their heads and | tempers. I Mr Hannel Booth says that at the I time of Larkin's arrest, Sackvillestreet was filled with promenaders. | Afterwards, the most brutal constabulary that were ever let loose upon a peaceful assembly rushed up and down the street like men possessed. The kicking of prostrate victims was a settledi part of the police programme. Wone resisted, and there was no attempt at rescue, and no abuse of the police. Most of the respectable people crawled away with bleeding heads. The Daily Mail says that the police erred on the side of brutality. They deliberately waited for runaways, and clubbed them as'they ran. Photographs of the occurrence show this distinctly. LABOURITES EXCITED. STRONG LANGUAGE BY BEN TILLETT. A GENERAL STRIKE ADVOCATED (Received Last Night, 11.20 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept. 2. The debate at the Manchester Labour Congress was noisy and excited, the delegates being much disquieted.A number of delegates abstained from attending the civic reception as a demonstration against the so-call-ed butchery of the workers. Mr Smillie supported a resolution pledging all delegates to boycott the reception, but the resolution was-de-feated. * Mr Ben-Tillett characterised the Government as a "bloody Govern-' ment." If the massacre in Dublin was to continue, the workers must, he said, have the right: to use firearms. ' -•• Mr Stanton advocated a general strike as a reply to the Dublin af* fair. A deputation from the Dublin Trades Council meets the Congress today. PROHIBITION OF MEETINGS. EMPHATIC CONDEMNATION BY TRADES CONGRESS. (Received September 2, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, Sept, 2. Tile Trade Union Congress at Man-. Chester unanimously adopted a resoln-. lution moved by Mr Sexton, of the Liverpool Dockers' Union, and seconded by Mr Stanton, of the Miners' Union, emphatically condemning the Government For prohibiting meetings in Dublin; also the brutal illtreatment of citizens. A resolution was passed demanding that the Earl of Aberdeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland, should re-establish the right of public meeting and institute a rigid inquiry. Mr Sexton said he was indignant that there should have been such occurrences in a Nationalist city. The blackness of Larkin, if it existed, was .jvhite compared with Sir Edward Carson's hellish blackness. No disorder had followed Larkin's words before free speech was stopped. Mr Ben Tilleft said war had been declared on the workers, who must in future treat their opponents similarly. .

CITY QUIET. INQUIRY REGARDING POLICE VIOLENCE. (Received September 2, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. Dublin is quiet. " The corporation; proposes to hold an inquiry respecting the alleged unnecessai-y violence the police. SOCIALIST PARTY'S PROTEST. (Received September 2, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. The British Socialist Party has protested to Mr Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, against the Dublin outrages, and has also telegraphed to Mr F. H. Booth, M.P. for Pontefract, who watched the police charge, and criticised their behaviour as follows: "We congratulate you on your protest against police brutality under a Liberal Administration." The Corporation of Dublin resolved, at the Lord Mayor's instance, to demand a sworn inquiry regarding the conduct of the police. The Lord Mayor added that if the Government refused, he would hold an inquiry. Larkin, leader of the Transport Workers' Union, has beea remanded till Wednesday. Many Drogheda police have been summonded to Dublin to assist in the preservation of peace. MR KEIR HARDIE IN DUBLIN. (Received September 2, 8.50 a.m.) ' LONDON, Sept. 1. In response to an appeal by the Irish Transport Workers' Union, Mr Keir Hardie, Labour M.P., is in Dublin investigating the causes of the riot and the alleged police excesses. Fearing renewed riots to-night, the authorities are stationing police and mounted men at many points in the city. TRADE UNION BADGES. (Received September 2„ 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. The firm of Jacobson, biscuit manufacturersi Dublin, has forbidden its employees to wear trade union badigefl; during work hours. The firm does not object to them belonging to an ordinary trade union, but censures the tyranny of the transporters' union interfering with work. Some of the employees belonging to the Transporters' Union are absent from work, and six hundred girls have therefore been locked out. There are indications that thousands of other workers will be idle to-raonw.